# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-vine
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:40:51.659Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-vine"
name: "Frederick Vine"
slug: "frederick-vine"
description: "Frederick John Vine FRS was an English marine geologist and geophysicist. He made key contributions to the theory of plate tectonics, helping to show that the seafloor spreads from mid-ocean ridges with a symmetrical pattern of magnetic reversals in the basalt rocks on either side."
tagline: "British geologist (1939–2024)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Frederick_Vine.png/330px-Frederick_Vine.png"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-06-17"
deathDate: "2024-06-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.76923076923077
  historical:           9.609216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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