# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carleton-roy-ball
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:35:10.150Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carleton-roy-ball"
name: "Carleton Roy Ball"
slug: "carleton-roy-ball"
description: "Carleton Roy Ball was an American botanist and cerealist in charge of the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry. During his life he described 45 species in the genus Salix (willows) and was also a founder of American Society of Agronomy as well as its journal editor."
tagline: "American botanist (1873-1958)"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1873-06-12"
deathDate: "1958-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             12
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "کارلٹن رائے بال"
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    title: "كارلتون روى بال"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_Roy_Ball"
    title: "Carleton Roy Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_Roy_Ball"
    title: "Carleton Roy Ball"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_Roy_Ball"
    title: "Carleton Roy Ball"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_Roy_Ball"
    title: "Carleton Roy Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump