# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-west-wells
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:50:17.024Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-west-wells"
name: "John West Wells"
slug: "john-west-wells"
description: "John West Wells was an American paleontologist, biologist and geologist who focused his research on corals."
tagline: "U.S. paleontologist, cnidariologist, and geologist (1907–1994)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1907-07-15"
deathDate: "1994-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.71
  momentum:             1.782178217821782
  historical:           7.004284
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "John W. Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون دبليو. ولز"
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    title: "جون دبليو. ولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Wells"
    title: "John W. Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Wells"
    title: "John W. Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Wells"
    title: "John W. Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_West_Wells"
    title: "John West Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_West_Wells"
    title: "John West Wells"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3182714"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump