# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josiah-whitney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:08:54.071Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josiah-whitney"
name: "Josiah Whitney"
slug: "josiah-whitney"
description: "Josiah Dwight Whitney was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University, and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874). Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regions of the United States, Whitney became the foremost authority of his day on the economic geology of the U.S. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, and the Whitney Glacier, the first confirmed glacier in the United States, on Mount Shasta, were both named after him by members of the Survey."
tagline: "American geologist (1819–1896)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josiah_whitney.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1819-11-23"
deathDate: "1896-08-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5590062111801242
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  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