# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herman-le-roy-fairchild
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:11:39.114Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herman-le-roy-fairchild"
name: "Herman Le Roy Fairchild"
slug: "herman-le-roy-fairchild"
description: "Herman Le Roy Fairchild was an American educator and geologist. He was an early proponent of the theory of meteorite impact causing craters such as that of Meteor Crater, Arizona. Fairchild also left his mark on glacial geology. In that field he is best known for having accurately mapped the proglacial lakes of western New York. He did his field work between the 1888 and the early years of the 20th century. He located strand lines (beaches) and erosional surfaces, determined their altitude, and interpolated between them to show the extent of several large bodies of water. A series of lakes was created as the Wisconsinan glaciation ended and ice sheets retreated during the latest Pleistocene and early Holocene epochs. Fairchild discovered several outlets where each lake drained to the east or west."
tagline: "American geologist (1850 – 1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herman_LeRoy_Fairchild.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1850-04-29"
deathDate: "1943-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.6
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.138877333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_LeRoy_Fairchild"
    title: "Herman LeRoy Fairchild"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_LeRoy_Fairchild"
    title: "Herman LeRoy Fairchild"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_LeRoy_Fairchild"
    title: "Herman LeRoy Fairchild"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%AB%E7%88%BE%E6%9B%BC%C2%B7%E5%8B%92%E7%BE%85%E4%BC%8A%C2%B7%E8%B2%BB%E7%88%BE%E6%9F%B4%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "赫爾曼·勒羅伊·費爾柴德"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5739969"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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