# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-aitken
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:54:06.243Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-aitken"
name: "John Aitken"
slug: "john-aitken"
description: "John Aitken, FRS, FRSE LLD was a Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer. He was one of the founders of cloud physics and aerosol science, who built the first apparatus to measure the number of dust and fog particles in the atmosphere, a koniscope."
tagline: "Scottish meteorologist, physicist and marine engineer (1839-1919)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Aitken_(meteorologist).png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1839-09-08"
deathDate: "1919-11-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Aitken"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump