# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-meneses
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:02:45.182Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-meneses"
name: "Laura Meneses"
slug: "laura-meneses"
description: "Laura Meneses del Carpio was the first Latin American in 1920 to be accepted into Radcliffe College, the women's educational institution affiliated with Harvard University. She earned a doctorate in natural sciences and became active in the movement for Puerto Rican independence from the United States."
tagline: "Peruvian-Cuban biologist and political activist (1894-1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/UNMSM_Contenta_a_Laura_Meneses_del_Carpio_1913_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1894-03-31"
deathDate: "1973-04-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.416308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  56
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Meneses"
    title: "Laura Meneses"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Meneses"
    title: "Laura Meneses"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64165011"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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