# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-murray-gates
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:17:46.932Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-murray-gates"
name: "David Murray Gates"
slug: "david-murray-gates"
description: "David M. Gates was an American ecologist who sounded early warnings that fossil fuels, fertilizers and pesticides posed a potentially fatal threat to the global environment. He published over fifty research papers and six books. His most influential book, \"Energy Exchange in the Biosphere,\" is often called the Rosetta Stone for biologists studying plant-environment heat exchange."
tagline: "American ecologist, physicist and botanist (1921-2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Murray_Gates.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: "1921-05-27"
deathDate: "2016-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.468466666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David M. Gates"
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    title: "David Murray Gates"
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    title: "David Murray Gates"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump