# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-bullard
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:47:21.517Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-bullard"
name: "Edward Bullard"
slug: "edward-bullard"
description: "Sir Edward Crisp Bullard FRS was a British geophysicist who is considered, along with Maurice Ewing, to have founded the discipline of marine geophysics. He developed the theory of the geodynamo, pioneered the use of seismology to study the sea floor, measured geothermal heat flow through the ocean crust, and found new evidence for the theory of continental drift."
tagline: "British geophysicist (1907–1980)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1907-09-21"
deathDate: "1980-04-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump