# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-b-herrick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:19:05.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-b-herrick"
name: "James B. Herrick"
slug: "james-b-herrick"
description: "James Bryan Herrick was an American physician and professor of medicine who practiced and taught in Chicago. He is credited with the description of sickle-cell disease and was one of the first physicians to describe the symptoms of myocardial infarction."
tagline: "American physician (1861-1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_B._Herrick.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1861-08-11"
deathDate: "1954-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.144349333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "詹姆斯·赫里克"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Herrick"
    title: "James B. Herrick"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Herrick"
    title: "James B. Herrick"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herrick"
    title: "James Herrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herrick"
    title: "James Herrick"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump