# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-compton-q81724919
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:12:55.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-compton-q81724919"
name: "John Compton"
slug: "john-compton-q81724919"
description: "John Joseph Compton was an American philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Compton was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America (1979). He was the son of Arthur Compton."
tagline: "American philosopher"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1929"
deathDate: "2014-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.468531468531468
  historical:           1.539237333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  19
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Joseph_Compton"
    title: "John Joseph Compton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81724919"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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