# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dickson-despommier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:57:53.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dickson-despommier"
name: "Dickson Despommier"
slug: "dickson-despommier"
description: "Dickson Donald Despommier was an American academic, microbiologist and ecologist who was a professor of microbiology and Public Health at Columbia University. From 1971 to 2009, he conducted research on intracellular parasitism and taught courses on parasitic diseases, medical ecology and ecology. Despommier received media coverage for his ideas on vertical farming."
tagline: "American academic, microbiologist, ecologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dickson_Despommier_retouched.png?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: "1940-06-05"
deathDate: "2025-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.72
  momentum:             1.314432989690722
  historical:           7.215804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ديكسون ديسبومير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_Despommier"
    title: "Dickson Despommier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_Despommier"
    title: "Dickson Despommier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_Despommier"
    title: "Dickson Despommier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%94%95%EC%8A%A8_%EB%8D%B0%EC%8A%A4%ED%8F%AC%EB%AF%B8%EC%96%B4"
    title: "딕슨 데스포미어"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_Despommier"
    title: "Dickson Despommier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickson_Despommier"
    title: "Dickson Despommier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1210149"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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