# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-r-bentley
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:16:21.249Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-r-bentley"
name: "Charles R. Bentley"
slug: "charles-r-bentley"
description: "Charles Raymond Bentley was an American glaciologist and geophysicist, born in Rochester, New York. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mount Bentley and the Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica are named after him. In 1957, he and a handful of other scientists including Mario Giovinetto set out on an expedition across West Antarctica in tracked vehicles to make the first measurements of the ice sheet."
tagline: "American scientist (1929–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Bentley_1964_in_Antarctica.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1929-12-23"
deathDate: "2017-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.5
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.743953333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charles Raymond Bentley"
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    title: "تشارلز ر. بنتلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشارلز ر. بنتلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Charles Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Bentley"
    title: "Charles R. Bentley"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Bentley"
    title: "Charles R. Bentley"
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  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Bentley"
    title: "Charles R. Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bentley"
    title: "Charles Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6'%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%A1_%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%93_%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "צ'ארלס ריימונד בנטלי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bentley"
    title: "Charles Bentley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q969696"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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