# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-samuel-irwin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:35:52.568Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-samuel-irwin"
name: "Howard Samuel Irwin"
slug: "howard-samuel-irwin"
description: "Howard Samuel Irwin Jr. was an American botanist and taxonomist who specialized in the genus Cassia and worked as an administrator at the New York Botanical Garden, Long Island University, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden."
tagline: "American botanist and taxonomist (1928-2019)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-03-28"
deathDate: "2019-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.2027
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Howard Samuel Irwin"
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    title: "Эрвин, Хауард Сэмюэл"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump