# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-lamson-scribner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:50:59.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-lamson-scribner"
name: "Frank Lamson-Scribner"
slug: "frank-lamson-scribner"
description: "Frank Lamson-Scribner was an American botanist and pioneering plant pathologist. In 1885, he became the first scientist to study the diseases of economic plants for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He became the first head of the USDA's Division of Agrostology in 1894, remaining in that position until 1901."
tagline: "American botanist (1851-1938)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1851-04-19"
deathDate: "1938-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Фрэнк Лэмсан Скрыбнер"
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    title: "Скрибнер, Фрэнк Лэмсон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump