# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denison-olmsted
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:52:29.734Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denison-olmsted"
name: "Denison Olmsted"
slug: "denison-olmsted"
description: "Denison Olmsted was an American physicist and astronomer. Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon."
tagline: "U.S. physicist and astronomer (1791–1859)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Denison_Olmsted.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1791-06-18"
deathDate: "1859-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "دينيسون أولمستيد"
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    title: "Denison Olmsted"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denison_Olmsted"
    title: "Denison Olmsted"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denison_Olmsted"
    title: "Denison Olmsted"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump