# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-j-miers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:44:12.951Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-j-miers"
name: "Edward J. Miers"
slug: "edward-j-miers"
description: "Edward John Miers FZS FLS was a British zoologist and curator of the crustacean collection at the Natural History Museum in London. He contributed to the scientific reports from the Challenger expedition of 1872–1876, and described 32 new genera and at least 260 new species and subspecies of decapod crustaceans, along with four genera and 72 new species in other orders."
tagline: "British carcinologist, zoologist and curator (1851– 1930)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1851"
deathDate: "1930-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.61
  momentum:             15.19607843137255
  historical:           5.468538666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "エドワード・ジョン・マイヤーズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87._%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3"
    title: "ادوارد جيه. ميرس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Miers"
    title: "Edward J. Miers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_John_Miers"
    title: "Edward John Miers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_John_Miers"
    title: "Edward John Miers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_John_Miers"
    title: "Edward John Miers"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5343666"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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