# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-alice-mcwhinnie
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:26:16.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-alice-mcwhinnie"
name: "Mary Alice McWhinnie"
slug: "mary-alice-mcwhinnie"
description: "Mary Alice McWhinnie was an American biologist, professor at DePaul University and an authority on krill. From Chicago, Illinois, she was the first woman to sail for two months in Antarctic waters aboard the NSF's research vessel, USNS Eltanin. The National Science Foundation eventually allowed her to winter over at McMurdo Station and in 1974, she became the first American woman to serve as chief scientist at an Antarctic research station."
tagline: "American biologist (1922-1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mary_Alice_McWhinnie_(1922-1980)_-_DePaul_University_-_1962_-_(2).jpg?width=1200"
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: "1922-08-10"
deathDate: "1980-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.4
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.869474666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Мері Еліс Мак-Вінні"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مارى اليس ماكوينى"
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    title: "Mary Alice McWhinnie"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice_McWhinnie"
    title: "Mary Alice McWhinnie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice_McWhinnie"
    title: "Mary Alice McWhinnie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice_McWhinnie"
    title: "Mary Alice McWhinnie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice_McWhinnie"
    title: "Mary Alice McWhinnie"
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    title: "მერი ელის მაკვინი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Alice_McWhinnie"
    title: "Mary Alice McWhinnie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump