# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mathew-carey-lea
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:40:29.757Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mathew-carey-lea"
name: "Mathew Carey Lea"
slug: "mathew-carey-lea"
description: "Mathew Carey Lea was an American chemist known for his research on the chemical and physical properties of silver halide salts and their usage in photography. He pioneered early work in mechanochemistry and developed Carey Lea Silver, a photochemical still in use today."
tagline: "American chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mathew_Carey_Lea_(1823%E2%80%931897).png?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: "1823-08-18"
deathDate: "1897"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.602628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ماثيو كاري لي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماثيو كارى لى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Carey_Lea"
    title: "Matthew Carey Lea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Carey_Lea"
    title: "Mathew Carey Lea"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mathew_Carey_Lea"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6786999"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump