# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-crane
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:02:06.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-crane"
name: "Peter Crane"
slug: "peter-crane"
description: "Sir Peter Crane is the current president of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation and senior research scientist in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. In addition to his work in leading and developing educational and natural history organizations, including the Field Museum in Chicago and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, he has had a long career as a professor and researcher in both the UK and the United States. He is best known for his work on the origin and early evolution of flowering plants (angiosperms) based on studies of the plant fossil record. His popular writing includes Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot, a book that traces the evolution and cultural history of Ginkgo biloba."
tagline: "British botanist and paleontologist (1954- )"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-07-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.341289333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD"
    title: "Пітер Крейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيتر كرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "بيتر كرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Crane"
    title: "Peter Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Crane"
    title: "Peter Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Crane"
    title: "Peter Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Robert_Crane"
    title: "Peter Robert Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q384238"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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