# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erik-jarvik
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:22:33.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erik-jarvik"
name: "Erik Jarvik"
slug: "erik-jarvik"
description: "Anders Erik Vilhelm Jarvik was a Swedish paleontologist who worked extensively on the sarcopterygian fish Eusthenopteron. In a career that spanned some 60 years, Jarvik produced some of the most detailed anatomical work on this fish, making it arguably the best known fossil vertebrate."
tagline: "Paleontologist (1907–1998)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Naturhistoriska_Riksmuseet_soderifran.jpg/330px-Naturhistoriska_Riksmuseet_soderifran.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
birthDate: "1907-11-30"
deathDate: "1998-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.137905333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jarvik"
    title: "Erik Jarvik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "اريك چارڤيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jarvik"
    title: "Erik Jarvik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jarvik"
    title: "Erik Jarvik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jarvik"
    title: "Erik Jarvik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Jarvik"
    title: "Erik Jarvik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Erik_Vilhelm_Jarvik"
    title: "Anders Erik Vilhelm Jarvik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1353988"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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