# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bertha-becker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:02:04.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bertha-becker"
name: "Bertha Becker"
slug: "bertha-becker"
description: "Bertha Koiffmann Becker was a Brazilian geographer, author and professor emeritus at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She published more than 180 books, articles, and other works during her career. Much of her research dealt with issues affecting the Amazon rainforest and surrounding regions, as well as the political geography of Brazil. She helped develop new public policies for the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology. She spoke as a panelist at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20 in 2012."
tagline: "Brazilian geographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bertha_Becker-FIG_1998.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-11-07"
deathDate: "2013-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.343629333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bertha Becker"
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    title: "بيرثا بيكر"
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    title: "বার্থা বেকার"
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    title: "Bertha Becker"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Becker"
    title: "Bertha Becker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Becker"
    title: "Bertha Becker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Becker"
    title: "Bertha Becker"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump