# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/e-b-ford
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:10:42.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/e-b-ford"
name: "E. B. Ford"
slug: "e-b-ford"
description: "Edmund Brisco \"Henry\" Ford was a British ecological geneticist. He was a leader among those British biologists who investigated the role of natural selection in nature. As a schoolboy Ford became interested in lepidoptera, the group of insects which includes butterflies and moths. He went on to study the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Ford was awarded the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1954. In the wider world his best known work is Butterflies (1945). Ford was a member of the UK Eugenics Society, of which he was a council member in 1933-1934, also contributing to its publications."
tagline: "British ecological geneticist (1901-1988)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/E_B_Ford.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1901-04-23"
deathDate: "1988-01-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump