# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-john-webber
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:48:43.423Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-john-webber"
name: "Herbert John Webber"
slug: "herbert-john-webber"
description: "Herbert John Webber was an American plant physiologist, professor emeritus of sub-tropical horticulture, first director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station, and the third curator of the University of California Citrus Variety Collection. Webber was the author of several publications on horticulture, member of numerous professional horticultural and agricultural associations. He coined the word \"clone\" in 1903 and was the first to use it to describe a colony of organisms derived asexually from a single progenitor."
tagline: "American botanist (1865-1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herbert_John_Webber_side_profile.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1865-12-27"
deathDate: "1946-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.93
  momentum:             5.909090909090909
  historical:           5.476170666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Herbert John Webber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هربرت جون ويبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هربرت جون ويبر"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_John_Webber"
    title: "Herbert John Webber"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_John_Webber"
    title: "Herbert John Webber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_John_Webber"
    title: "Herbert John Webber"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3133468"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump