# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-tuckerman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:10:45.931Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-tuckerman"
name: "Edward Tuckerman"
slug: "edward-tuckerman"
description: "Edward Tuckerman was an American botanist and professor who made significant contributions to the study of lichens and other alpine plants. He was a founding member of the Natural History Society of Boston and most of his career was spent at Amherst College. He did the majority of his collecting on the slopes of Mount Washington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Tuckerman Ravine was named in his honor. The standard botanical author abbreviation Tuck. is applied to species he described."
tagline: "American botanist (1817–1886)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_Tuckerman_1855-1886.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1817-12-07"
deathDate: "1886-03-15"
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