# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-wellman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:54:31.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-wellman"
name: "Harold Wellman"
slug: "harold-wellman"
description: "Harold William Wellman was a New Zealand geologist known for his work on plate tectonics. He is notable for his discovery of South Island's Alpine Fault. Wellman became a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1954, and was awarded the Hector Memorial Medal and Prize in 1957 and the McKay Hammer Award in 1959."
tagline: "New Zealand geologist (1909–1999)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-03-25"
deathDate: "1999-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5555555555555556
  historical:           5.268034666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Harold Wellman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_William_Wellman"
    title: "Harold William Wellman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارولد ولمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harold Wellman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wellman"
    title: "Harold Wellman"
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    title: "Харолд Велман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1845577"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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