# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-alter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:42:01.145Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-alter"
name: "David Alter"
slug: "david-alter"
description: "David Alter was a prominent American inventor and scientist of the 19th century. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Reformed Medical School in New York City. He had German and Swiss ancestry."
tagline: "American inventor and scientist (1807–1881)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/P010-DavidAlter.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: "1807-12-03"
deathDate: "1881-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.39
  momentum:             8.360655737704917
  historical:           8.743809333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "ديفيد ألتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ديفيد التر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دەیڤید ئاڵتەر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alter"
    title: "David Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alter"
    title: "David Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "دیوید آلتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alter"
    title: "David Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alter"
    title: "David Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Alter"
    title: "David Alter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2070969"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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