# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-e-mcdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:47:58.394Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-e-mcdonald"
name: "James E. McDonald"
slug: "james-e-mcdonald"
description: "James Edward McDonald was an American atmospheric physicist and meteorologist. He is known for his scientific research in weather modification through cloud seeding, while working as an associate director at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and as a professor of meteorology at the University of Arizona in Tucson."
tagline: "American physicist (1920–1971)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_E._McDonald_1.gif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-05-07"
deathDate: "1971-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James E. McDonald"
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    title: "جيمس إي ماكدونالد"
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    title: "جیمز ئی. مک‌دانلد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump