# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-w-woodworth
# Generated: 2026-08-16T09:17:30.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-w-woodworth"
name: "Charles W. Woodworth"
slug: "charles-w-woodworth"
description: "Charles William Woodworth was an American entomologist. He published extensively in entomology and founded the Entomology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first person to breed the model organism Drosophila melanogaster in captivity and to suggest to early genetic researchers at Harvard its use for scientific research. He spent four years at the University of Nanking, China, where he effected the practical control of the city's mosquitoes. He drafted and lobbied for California's first insecticide law and administered the law for 12 years. The Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America named its annual career achievement award the C. W. Woodworth Award."
tagline: "American entomologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_W._Woodworth_reading.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1865-04-28"
deathDate: "1940-11-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.7
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.474082666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charles W. Woodworth"
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    title: "تشارلز دبليو. ودورث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Woodworth"
    title: "Charles W. Woodworth"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%A5%E5%B0%94%E6%96%AF%C2%B7W%C2%B7%E4%BC%8D%E5%BE%B7%E6%B2%83%E6%80%9D"
    title: "查尔斯·W·伍德沃思"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Woodworth"
    title: "Charles W. Woodworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Woodworth"
    title: "Charles William Woodworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5083283"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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