# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-coulston-gillispie
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:40:03.406Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-coulston-gillispie"
name: "Charles Coulston Gillispie"
slug: "charles-coulston-gillispie"
description: "Charles Coulston Gillispie was an American historian of science. He was the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science at Princeton University, and was credited with building Princeton's history of science program into a leading center for the field. He was best known for his general introduction to the history of science, The Edge of Objectivity, his deep two-volume study of French scientific history Science and Polity in France, and his chief editor role for the 16-volume, 5,000-entry Dictionary of Scientific Biography."
tagline: "American historian (1918–2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1918-08-06"
deathDate: "2015-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.406444
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "تشارلز كولستون جيليسبى"
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    title: "Charles Gillispie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Charles Coulston Gillispie"
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    title: "Charles Coulston Gillispie"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gillispie"
    title: "Charles Gillispie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coulston_Gillispie"
    title: "Charles Coulston Gillispie"
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    title: "Гиллиспи, Чарльз"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump