# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ghiselin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:11:47.113Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ghiselin"
name: "Michael Ghiselin"
slug: "michael-ghiselin"
description: "Michael T. Ghiselin was an American biologist and philosopher as well as a historian of biology, formerly at the California Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "American biologist (1939–2024)"
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: "1939-05-13"
deathDate: "2024-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.4
  momentum:             7.941176470588236
  historical:           7.873542666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Ghiselin"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ghiselin"
    title: "Michael Ghiselin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ghiselin"
    title: "Michael Ghiselin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ghiselin"
    title: "Michael Ghiselin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ghiselin"
    title: "Michael Ghiselin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ghiselin"
    title: "Michael Ghiselin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ghiselin"
    title: "Michael Ghiselin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ghiselin"
    title: "Michael Ghiselin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%88%E5%85%8B%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E7%9B%96%E6%96%AF%E6%9E%97"
    title: "迈克尔·盖斯林"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q547129"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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