# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-miller-sternberg
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:36:25.146Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-miller-sternberg"
name: "George Miller Sternberg"
slug: "george-miller-sternberg"
description: "Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg was a U.S. Army physician who is considered the first American bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia (1881), and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever (1886)."
tagline: "American physician (1838–1915); 18th U.S. Army Surgeon General from 1893 to 1902"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1838-06-08"
deathDate: "1915-11-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump