# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-sweetman-ames
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:09:44.691Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-sweetman-ames"
name: "Joseph Sweetman Ames"
slug: "joseph-sweetman-ames"
description: "Joseph Sweetman Ames was an American physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 to 1929, and university president from 1929 to 1935. He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its longtime chairman (1919–1939). NASA Ames Research Center is named after him. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1905 and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1909. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1911. He was the 1935 recipient of the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution."
tagline: "American university president (1864-1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Sweetman_Ames.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1864-07-03"
deathDate: "1943-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.29
  momentum:             0.3465346534653466
  historical:           9.815048
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جوزيف سويتمان أميس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Sweetman Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Sweetman Ames"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sweetman_Ames"
    title: "Joseph Sweetman Ames"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "جوزف ایمز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sweetman_Ames"
    title: "Joseph Sweetman Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sweetman_Ames"
    title: "Joseph Sweetman Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sweetman_yana_so"
    title: "Joseph Sweetman yana so"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sweetman_Ames"
    title: "Joseph Sweetman Ames"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump