# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/c-donald-bateman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:42.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/c-donald-bateman"
name: "C. Donald Bateman"
slug: "c-donald-bateman"
description: "Charles Donald Bateman, often known as Don Bateman, was a Canadian electrical engineer and the inventor of the Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS), a device that is responsible for a marked decline in controlled flight into terrain accidents, such as the Mount Erebus disaster.\"It's accepted within the industry that Don Bateman has probably saved more lives than any single person in the history of aviation.\""
tagline: "Canadian-born US electronics engineer, inventor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Bateman_receiving_the_National_Medal_of_Technology_and_Innovation_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-03-08"
deathDate: "2023-05-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.97
  momentum:             24.94722955145119
  historical:           7.227216
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "سی ڈونالڈ بیٹ مین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز دونالد بيتمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Donald_Bateman"
    title: "C. Donald Bateman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Donald_Bateman"
    title: "C. Donald Bateman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Donald_Bateman"
    title: "Charles Donald Bateman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%89%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AC%D5%A6_%D4%B4%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%A4_%D4%B2%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%A9%D5%B4%D5%A5%D5%B6"
    title: "Չարլզ Դոնալդ Բեյթմեն"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Donald_Bateman"
    title: "Charles Donald Bateman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B7_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4"
    title: "Бейтмен, Чарльз Дональд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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