# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-walrod-harrington
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:56:30.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-walrod-harrington"
name: "Mark Walrod Harrington"
slug: "mark-walrod-harrington"
description: "Mark Walrod Harrington was an American scientist who studied and published works in multiple disciplines, including botany, astronomy, meteorology, and geology. He was the first chief of the United States Weather Bureau, and later served as the 11th president of the University of Washington. Considered a prominent scientist in the late 19th century, he knew a half-dozen languages. His academic achievements were overshadowed, however, by his disappearance in 1899, when he left home one day and was not heard from for many years. His wife and son located him in 1908 at a psychiatric hospital in New Jersey where he had been admitted as patient John Doe No. 8."
tagline: "American astronomer and meteorologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mark_Walrod_Harrington.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1848-08-18"
deathDate: "1926-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.56
  momentum:             0.6024096385542169
  historical:           3.936501333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Walrod_Harrington"
    title: "Mark Walrod Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Walrod_Harrington"
    title: "Mark Walrod Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Walrod_Harrington"
    title: "Mark Walrod Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Walrod_Harrington"
    title: "Mark Walrod Harrington"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18911742"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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