# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-vernon-coville
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:24:14.763Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-vernon-coville"
name: "Frederick Vernon Coville"
slug: "frederick-vernon-coville"
description: "Frederick Vernon Coville was an American botanist who participated in the Death Valley Expedition (1890–1891), was honorary curator of the United States National Herbarium (1893–1937), worked at then was Chief botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and was the first director of the United States National Arboretum. He made contribution to economic botany and helped shape American scientific policy of the time on plant and exploration research."
tagline: "American botanist (1867-1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FVCoville.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: "1867-03-23"
deathDate: "1937-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.093117408906883
  historical:           8.076530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Фредерік Вернон Ковілл"
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    title: "Frederick Vernon Coville"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Vernon_Coville"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Vernon_Coville"
    title: "Frederick Vernon Coville"
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    title: "Frederick Vernon Coville"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Vernon_Coville"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump