# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-james-banker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:30:28.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-james-banker"
name: "Howard James Banker"
slug: "howard-james-banker"
description: "Howard James Banker was an American mycologist. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1908. Banker was an associate editor of the journal Mycologia starting from its establishment in 1909, until it became the official publication of the Mycological Society of America in 1933. He published several papers in the journal, including a revision of the North American Hydnaceae, which discussed 62 species in 10 genera. Banker died at his home in Huntington, New York, in 1940. The genus Bankera is named after him."
tagline: "American mycologist (1866-1940)"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1866-04-19"
deathDate: "1940-11-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.201224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Howard James Banker"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump