# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jesse-william-lazear
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:50:03.174Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jesse-william-lazear"
name: "Jesse William Lazear"
slug: "jesse-william-lazear"
description: "Jesse William Lazear was an American physician. In 1900, he deliberately allowed a mosquito to bite him to test the hypothesis that mosquitoes were the vector for yellow fever transmission. He contracted the disease but did not recover and died on September 25, 1900."
tagline: "American physician (1866-1900)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lazear_Jesse_William_1866-1900.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: "1866-05-02"
deathDate: "1900-09-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.28
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.43294
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jesse William Lazear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيسي وليام لازيير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيسى وليام لازيير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_William_Lazear"
    title: "Jesse William Lazear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_William_Lazear"
    title: "Jesse William Lazear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_William_Lazear"
    title: "Jesse William Lazear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8D%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Лэзир, Джесси Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Lazear"
    title: "Jesse Lazear"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2471960"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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