# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-b-wake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:18:34.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-b-wake"
name: "David B. Wake"
slug: "david-b-wake"
description: "David Burton Wake was an American herpetologist. He was professor of integrative biology and Director and curator of herpetology of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. Wake is known for his work on the biology and evolution of salamanders as well as general issues of vertebrate evolutionary biology. He has served as president of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the American Society of Naturalists, and American Society of Zoologists. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Linnean Society of London, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and in 1998 was elected into the National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the 2006 Leidy Award from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia."
tagline: "American evolutionary biologist (1936–2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-06-08"
deathDate: "2021-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/waked"
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    title: "David Burton Wake"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump