# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-oliver
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:44:16.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jack-oliver"
name: "Jack Oliver"
slug: "jack-oliver"
description: "John \"Jack\" Ertle Oliver was an American scientist. Oliver, who earned his PhD at Columbia University in 1953, studied earthquakes and ultimately provided seismic evidence supporting plate tectonics. In the 1960s, Oliver and his former graduate student, Bryan Isacks, set up seismographic stations in the South Pacific to record earthquake activity, and the data collected led to the insight that part of the ocean floor was being pushed downward."
tagline: "American seismologist (1923–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/John_%22Jack%22_Ertle_Oliver.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1923-09-26"
deathDate: "2011-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.19
  momentum:             2.195121951219512
  historical:           6.340389333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "杰克·奥利弗"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "جاك أوليفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Oliver_(Geophysiker)"
    title: "Jack Oliver (Geophysiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Oliver_(scientist)"
    title: "Jack Oliver (scientist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Oliver_(scientifique)"
    title: "Jack Oliver (scientifique)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%93%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0"
    title: "जैक ओलिवर"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1_(%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86)"
    title: "جیک اولیور (سائنس دان)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1677140"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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