# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/morgan-crofton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:42:07.344Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/morgan-crofton"
name: "Morgan Crofton"
slug: "morgan-crofton"
description: "Morgan William Crofton was an Irish mathematician who contributed to the field of geometric probability theory. He also worked with James Joseph Sylvester and contributed an article on probability to the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Crofton's formula is named in his honour."
tagline: "Irish mathematician (1826–1915)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Morgan_Crofton.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1826-06-27"
deathDate: "1915-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Morgan Crofton"
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    title: "Morgan Crofton"
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    title: "Крофтон, Морган"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_Crofton"
    title: "Morgan Crofton"
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    title: "Morgan Crofton"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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