# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basil-john-mason
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:18:42.698Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basil-john-mason"
name: "Basil John Mason"
slug: "basil-john-mason"
description: "Sir Basil John Mason was a British expert on cloud physics. He was Director-General of the Meteorological Office from 1965 to 1983 and Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) from 1994 to 1996."
tagline: "British meteorologist (1923–2015)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/John_Mason_1967.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-08-18"
deathDate: "2015-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.54
  momentum:             3.1
  historical:           6.804716
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باسل جون ميسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mason_(Meteorologe)"
    title: "John Mason (Meteorologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mason_(meteorologist)"
    title: "John Mason (meteorologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_John_Mason"
    title: "Basil John Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_John_Mason"
    title: "Basil John Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_John_Mason"
    title: "Basil John Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_John_Mason"
    title: "Basil John Mason"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555606"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump