# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-nickerson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:07:16.762Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-nickerson"
name: "Dorothy Nickerson"
slug: "dorothy-nickerson"
description: "Dorothy Nickerson was an American color scientist and technologist who made important contributions in the fields of color quality control, technical use of colorimetry, the relationship between color stimuli and color perceptions, standardization of light sources, color tolerance specification, and others."
tagline: "American color scientist (1900–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dorothy_Nickerson%2C_Color_Technologist%2C_June_20_1938_LCCN2016873729_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1900-08-05"
deathDate: "1985-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.135637333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Nickerson"
    title: "Dorothy Nickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Nickerson"
    title: "Dorothy Nickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Nickerson"
    title: "Dorothy Nickerson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8B%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ドロシー・ニッカーソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5298568"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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