# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-james-waterston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:38:42.622Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-james-waterston"
name: "John James Waterston"
slug: "john-james-waterston"
description: "John James Waterston was a Scottish physicist and a neglected pioneer of the kinetic theory of gases."
tagline: "Scottish civil engineer and physicist (1811–1883)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Waterston.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1811"
deathDate: "1883-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John James Waterston"
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    title: "John James Waterston"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump