# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-bixler-heiser
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:25:30.872Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-bixler-heiser"
name: "Charles Bixler Heiser"
slug: "charles-bixler-heiser"
description: "Charles Bixler Heiser Jr. was an American professor of botany, known as a leading expert on the sunflower genus Helianthus. He is also noteworthy as the author of a \"series of popular books that did much to promote botany to the general public.\""
tagline: "American botanist (1920-2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Bixler_Heiser_-_American_botanist.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-10-05"
deathDate: "2010-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.05
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.469510666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bixler_Heiser"
    title: "Charles Bixler Heiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bixler_Heiser"
    title: "Charles Bixler Heiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bixler_Heiser"
    title: "Charles Bixler Heiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bixler_Heiser"
    title: "Charles Bixler Heiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Bixler_Heiser"
    title: "Carolus Bixler Heiser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%B7_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Хайзер, Чарлз Бикслер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975697"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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