# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-augustine-cushman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:55:39.592Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-augustine-cushman"
name: "Joseph Augustine Cushman"
slug: "joseph-augustine-cushman"
description: "Joseph Augustine Cushman was an American micropaleontologist and academic. He specialized in the study of marine protozoans (foraminifera) and became the foremost foraminiferologist of the first half of the twentieth century, developing to a \"world-famous system of discovering petroleum deposits\". He also was a founding father of Kappa Delta Phi fraternity."
tagline: "American geologist and paleontologist (1881–1949)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1881-01-31"
deathDate: "1949-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           7.00288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump