# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-buxtun
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:20:41.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-buxtun"
name: "Peter Buxtun"
slug: "peter-buxtun"
description: "Peter Buxbaum was an American epidemiologist. He was an employee of the United States Public Health Service who became known as the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee Syphilis Study."
tagline: "Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower (1937–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Buxtun.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1937-09-29"
deathDate: "2024-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.03
  momentum:             3.613752743233358
  historical:           5.733662666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 242
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun"
    title: "Peter Buxtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيتر بوكستين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun"
    title: "Peter Buxtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BD%BC%E5%BE%97%C2%B7%E5%B7%B4%E5%85%8B%E6%96%AF%E9%A1%BF"
    title: "彼得·巴克斯顿"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun"
    title: "Peter Buxtun"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%BC%ED%84%B0_%EB%B2%85%EC%8A%A4%ED%84%B4"
    title: "피터 벅스턴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7173108"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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