# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-singer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:35:01.781Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-singer"
name: "Fred Singer"
slug: "fred-singer"
description: "Siegfried Fred Singer was an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia, trained as an atmospheric physicist. He was known for rejecting the scientific consensus on several issues, including climate change, the connection between UV-B exposure and melanoma rates, stratospheric ozone loss being caused by chlorofluoro compounds, often used as refrigerants, and the health risks of passive smoking."
tagline: "American physicist (1924-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/S_Fred_Singer_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-09-27"
deathDate: "2020-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.61
  momentum:             10
  historical:           11.17718133333333
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "فریڈ سنگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريد سنجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فريد سنجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer"
    title: "Fred Singer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer"
    title: "Fred Singer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Singer"
    title: "Frederick Singer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "فرد سینگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer"
    title: "Fred Singer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer"
    title: "Fred Singer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer"
    title: "Fred Singer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer"
    title: "Fred Singer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer"
    title: "Fred Singer"
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  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Singer"
    title: "Fred Singer"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q366340"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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