# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-press
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:01:57.044Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-press"
name: "Frank Press"
slug: "frank-press"
description: "Frank Press was an American geophysicist. He was an advisor to four U.S. presidents, and later served two consecutive terms as president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1981–1993). He was the author of 160 scientific papers and co-author of the textbooks Earth and Understanding Earth."
tagline: "American geophysicist (1924–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Press_at_Seismological_Observatory_in_Jerusalem_1953_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-12-04"
deathDate: "2020-01-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           13.15108133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  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