# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-mckay-wiegand
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:50:53.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-mckay-wiegand"
name: "Karl McKay Wiegand"
slug: "karl-mckay-wiegand"
description: "Karl McKay Wiegand was an American botanist who headed the Department of Botany at Cornell University for 28 years. He was a member of the Botanical Society of America and served as its president in 1939."
tagline: "American botanist (1873–1942)"
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: "1873-06-02"
deathDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.65
  momentum:             16.75
  historical:           7.868358666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Карл Маккей Віґанд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل مكاي ويغاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل مكاى ويجاند"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_McKay_Wiegand"
    title: "Karl McKay Wiegand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_McKay_Wiegand"
    title: "Karl McKay Wiegand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Карл Мекеј Виганд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B9"
    title: "Уиганд, Карл Маккей"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_McKay_Wiegand"
    title: "Karl McKay Wiegand"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_McKay_Wiegand"
    title: "Karl McKay Wiegand"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5958294"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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