# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-f-knipling
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:38:54.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-f-knipling"
name: "Edward F. Knipling"
slug: "edward-f-knipling"
description: "Edward Fred Knipling was an American entomologist, who along with his longtime colleague Raymond C. Bushland, received the 1992 World Food Prize for their collaborative achievements in developing the sterile insect technique for eradicating or suppressing the threat posed by pests to the livestock and crops that contribute to the world's food supply. Knipling's contributions included the parasitoid augmentation technique, insect control methods involving the medication of the hosts, and various models of total insect population management. Knipling was best known as the inventor of the sterile insect technique (SIT), an autocidal theory of total insect population management. The New York Times Magazine proclaimed on January 11, 1970, that \"Knipling...has been credited by some scientists as having come up with 'the single most original thought in the 20th century.'\""
tagline: "American entomologist (1909–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EdwardF.KniplingEntomologist.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1909-03-20"
deathDate: "2000-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             29.75268817204301
  historical:           6.558029333333334
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ниплинг, Эдвард"
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    title: "Edward F. Knipling"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_F._Knipling"
    title: "Edward F. Knipling"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fred_Knipling"
    title: "Edward Fred Knipling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fred_Knipling"
    title: "Edward Fred Knipling"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump