# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-thomas-curtis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:50:58.939Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-thomas-curtis"
name: "John Thomas Curtis"
slug: "john-thomas-curtis"
description: "John Thomas Curtis was an American botanist and plant ecologist. He is particularly known for his lasting contribution to the development of numerical methods in ecology. Together with J. Roger Bray, he developed the method of polar ordination with its inherent distance measure, the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity."
tagline: "American ecologist and botanist (1913-1961)"
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birthDate: "1913-09-20"
deathDate: "1961-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump