# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josiah-c-nott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:38:39.093Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josiah-c-nott"
name: "Josiah C. Nott"
slug: "josiah-c-nott"
description: "Josiah Clark Nott was an American surgeon, anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his studies into the etiology of yellow fever and malaria, including the theory that they are caused by germs, and for his espousal of scientific racism."
tagline: "American physician (1804–1873)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josiah_Clarke_Nott.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1804-03-31"
deathDate: "1873-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.164113333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Clark_Nott"
    title: "Josiah Clark Nott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%87_%D8%B3%D9%89._%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AA"
    title: "چوسياه سى. نوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Clark_Nott"
    title: "Josiah Clark Nott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_C._Nott"
    title: "Josiah C. Nott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_C._Nott"
    title: "Josiah C. Nott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_C._Nott"
    title: "Josiah C. Nott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Clark_Nott"
    title: "Josiah Clark Nott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1708623"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump