# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-johnston-alexander
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:00:50.558Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-johnston-alexander"
name: "Edward Johnston Alexander"
slug: "edward-johnston-alexander"
description: "Edward Johnston Alexander was an American botanist who discovered three species and one genus. He is the author or one of the authors of 205 entries in the International Plant Names Index. He was born in Asheville, North Carolina and studied at North Carolina State University from 1919 to 1923. He was a longtime assistant and curator at New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), originally under the guidance of Small. While at the NYBG, he served as an editor of the Garden's botanical journal Addisonia for about thirty years, until the journal ceased publication in 1964."
tagline: "Botanist (1901-1985)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901-07-31"
deathDate: "1985-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  popularity:           37.88
  momentum:             6.576923076923077
  historical:           7.668646666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ادوارد جونسوتن الكساندر"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Johnston Alexander"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Johnston_Alexander"
    title: "Edward Johnston Alexander"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardus_Johnston_Alexander"
    title: "Eduardus Johnston Alexander"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump