# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-bretland-farmer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:59:30.523Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-bretland-farmer"
name: "John Bretland Farmer"
slug: "john-bretland-farmer"
description: "Sir John Bretland Farmer FRS FRSE was a British botanist. He believed that chromomeres not chromosomes were the unit of heredity. Farmer and J. E. S. Moore introduced the term meiosis in 1905."
tagline: "British botanist (1865-1944)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1865-04-05"
deathDate: "1944-01-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.61
  momentum:             0.1282051282051282
  historical:           7.002844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John Bretland Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "جون فارمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "জন ব্রেটল্যান্ড ফারমার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bretland_Farmer"
    title: "John Bretland Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bretland_Farmer"
    title: "John Bretland Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bretland_Farmer"
    title: "John Bretland Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bretland_Farmer"
    title: "John Bretland Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bretland_Farmer"
    title: "John Bretland Farmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6223090"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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