# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lonnie-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:30:33.252Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lonnie-thompson"
name: "Lonnie Thompson"
slug: "lonnie-thompson"
description: "Lonnie Thompson is an American paleoclimatologist and university professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University. He has achieved global recognition for his drilling and analysis of ice cores from ice caps and mountain glaciers in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. He and his wife, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, run the ice core paleoclimatology research group at the Byrd Polar Research Center."
tagline: "American paleoclimatologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lonnie_Thompson%2C_2015-2.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: "1948-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.28268666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "朗尼·汤姆森"
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    title: "لوني تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lonnie G. Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lonnie Thompson"
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    title: "لونی تامپسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Thompson"
    title: "Lonnie Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Thompson"
    title: "Lonnie Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lonnie Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonnie_Thompson"
    title: "Lonnie Thompson"
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    title: "Томпсон, Лонни"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump