# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-f-loomis
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:01:56.214Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-f-loomis"
name: "Harold F. Loomis"
slug: "harold-f-loomis"
description: "Harold Frederick Loomis was an American botanist and myriapodologist known for his contributions to agronomy, plant pathology, and millipede taxonomy. He worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture for over four decades, studying diseases of crop plants, and was a colleague of Orator F. Cook. He also made major contributions to the natural history of Central America and the West Indies, naming over 500 species of millipedes in total. He co-described with Cook the leggiest animal on earth: Illacme plenipes, with over 700 legs."
tagline: "American botanist and myriapodologist (1896-1976)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Harold_Frederick_Loomis.jpeg"
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: "1896-12-23"
deathDate: "1976-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.468718666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_F._Loomis"
    title: "Harold F. Loomis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A5%D9%81._%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "هارولد إف. لوميس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارولد اف. لوميس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Frederick_Loomis"
    title: "Harold Frederick Loomis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_F._Loomis"
    title: "Harold F. Loomis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_F._Loomis"
    title: "Harold F. Loomis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16072451"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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