# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lynn-thorndike
# Generated: 2026-09-01T05:53:03.782Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lynn-thorndike"
name: "Lynn Thorndike"
slug: "lynn-thorndike"
description: "Lynn Thorndike was an American historian of medieval science and alchemy. He was the son of a clergyman, Edward R. Thorndike, and the younger brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike, an American educator and expert on William Shakespeare, and Edward Lee Thorndike, known for being the father of modern educational psychology."
tagline: "American historian of medieval science and alchemy (1882–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lynn_Thorndike_1938.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1882-07-24"
deathDate: "1965-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.59
  momentum:             8.624999999999998
  historical:           10.08236266666667
  currentAttention:     47.91666666666667
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "لين ثورندايك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lynn Thorndike"
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    title: "Lynn Thorndike"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Thorndike"
    title: "Lynn Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Thorndike"
    title: "Lynn Thorndike"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "לין תורנדייק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lynn Thorndike"
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    title: "Торндайк, Линн"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump