# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-wilfrid-lancaster
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:39:08.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-wilfrid-lancaster"
name: "Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster"
slug: "frederick-wilfrid-lancaster"
description: "Frederick Wilfrid (\"Wilf\") Lancaster was a British-American information scientist. He immigrated to the US in 1959 and worked as information specialist for the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland, from 1965 to 1968. He was a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, from 1972 to 1992 and professor emeritus from 1992 to 2013. He continued as an honored scholar after retirement speaking on the evolution of librarianship in the 20th and 21st century."
tagline: "British-American information scientist (1933-2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/FWLancaster.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1933-09-04"
deathDate: "2013-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.10173697270471
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "弗雷德里克·威尔弗里德·兰开斯特"
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    title: "فريدريك أوسكار لانكستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster"
    title: "Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster"
    title: "Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster"
    title: "Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Lancaster"
    title: "Frederick Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Wilfrid_Lancaster"
    title: "Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ланкастер, Фредерик Уилфрид"
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    title: "Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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