# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-g-baker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:47:58.480Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-g-baker"
name: "Herbert G. Baker"
slug: "herbert-g-baker"
description: "Herbert George Baker was a British-American botanist and evolutionary ecologist who was an authority on pollination biology and breeding systems of angiosperms. He described what became known as \"Baker's rule,\" a theoretical proposal underpinning an empirical observation that the ability to self-fertilize improves colonization ability among plants by increasing the probability of successful establishment after long-distance dispersal. He collaborated with his wife, Irene Baker, studying the content and function of nectar, and undertaking research and publishing papers on its evolutionary and taxonomic significance."
tagline: "Botanist (1920-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/Herbert_George_Baker.jpg"
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: "1920"
deathDate: "2001"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.68
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.469222666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Herbert G. Baker"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_George_Baker"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_George_Baker"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_G._Baker"
    title: "Herbert G. Baker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump