# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edgar-nelson-transeau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:32:59.760Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edgar-nelson-transeau"
name: "Edgar Nelson Transeau"
slug: "edgar-nelson-transeau"
description: "Edgar Nelson Transeau (1875–1960) was an American botanist and phycologist known for his work in plant ecology and phytogeography. He is best remembered for his influential paper, \"The Prairie Peninsula\" published in Ecology in 1935, which examined the eastern extension of Midwestern grasslands."
tagline: "American botanist and phycologist (1875-1960)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Portrait_of_Botanist_Edgar_Nelson_Transeau.png/330px-Portrait_of_Botanist_Edgar_Nelson_Transeau.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1875-10-21"
deathDate: "1960-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             20.3125
  historical:           4.601764
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Nelson_Transeau"
    title: "Edgar Nelson Transeau"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump