# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-alfred-minchin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:31:04.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-alfred-minchin"
name: "Edward Alfred Minchin"
slug: "edward-alfred-minchin"
description: "Edward Alfred Minchin was a British zoologist who specialised in the study of sponges and Protozoa. He became Jodrell Chair of Zoology at University College London in 1899, Chair of Protozoology at the University of London in 1906, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911."
tagline: "British biologist (1866–1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward-Alfred-Minchin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1866"
deathDate: "1915-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36
  momentum:             2.5
  historical:           4.802412
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Alfred_Minchin"
    title: "Edward Alfred Minchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Alfred_Minchin"
    title: "Edward Alfred Minchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4"
    title: "Минчин, Эдвард Альфред"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Alfred_Minchin"
    title: "Edward Alfred Minchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%88%B1%E5%BE%B7%E5%8D%8E%C2%B7%E9%98%BF%E5%B0%94%E5%BC%97%E9%9B%B7%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E6%98%8E%E9%92%A6"
    title: "爱德华·阿尔弗雷德·明钦"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3719922"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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