# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elso-sterrenberg-barghoorn
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:11:38.468Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elso-sterrenberg-barghoorn"
name: "Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn"
slug: "elso-sterrenberg-barghoorn"
description: "Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn was an American paleobotanist, called by his student Andrew Knoll, the present Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard, \"the father of Pre-Cambrian palaeontology.\""
tagline: "American botanist and paleontologist (1915-1984)"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1915-06-30"
deathDate: "1984-01-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "السو سترينبرج بارجورن"
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    title: "Elso Barghoorn"
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    title: "Elso Barghoorn"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elso_Sterrenberg_Barghoorn"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump