# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lydia-roberts
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:08:16.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lydia-roberts"
name: "Lydia Roberts"
slug: "lydia-roberts"
description: "Lydia Jane Roberts (1879–1965) was a pioneering nutritionist in childhood nutrition, especially in creating government nutrition standards like the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) of minerals and vitamins. She studied and taught at the University of Chicago, receiving her Ph.D. in home economics in 1928 and later becoming department chair in 1930."
tagline: "American scientist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Photo_of_Lydia_Roberts.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1879-06-30"
deathDate: "1965-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.38
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.20234
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Лідія Джейн Робертс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "ليديا روبرتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_J._Roberts"
    title: "Lydia J. Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Roberts"
    title: "Lydia Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_J._Roberts"
    title: "Lydia J. Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Roberts"
    title: "Lydia Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Roberts"
    title: "Lydia Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Roberts"
    title: "Lydia Roberts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19664066"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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