# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-pollard-espy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:51:22.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-pollard-espy"
name: "James Pollard Espy"
slug: "james-pollard-espy"
description: "James Pollard Espy was a U.S. meteorologist. Espy developed a convection theory of storms, explaining it in 1836 before the American Philosophical Society and in 1840 before the French Académie des Sciences and the British Royal Society. His theory was published in 1840 as The Philosophy of Storms. He became meteorologist to the War (1842) and Navy (1848) departments and developed the use of the telegraph in assembling weather observation data by which he studied the progress of storms and laid the basis for scientific weather forecasting."
tagline: "American meteorologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JamesPollardEspy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1785-05-09"
deathDate: "1860-01-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "جيمس بولارد إسبي"
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    title: "James Pollard Espy"
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    title: "James Pollard Espy"
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    title: "Эспи, Джеймс Поллард"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump