# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-vail
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:14:11.473Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-vail"
name: "Peter Vail"
slug: "peter-vail"
description: "Peter R. Vail was an American geologist and geophysicist, the namesake of the Vail curve of sea level changes. Vail earned his AB at Dartmouth College in 1952, followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University in 1956. He was the W. Maurice Ewing Professor, Emeritus, in the Department of Earth Science at Rice University."
tagline: "American geologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-01-13"
deathDate: "2024-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.17
  momentum:             18.42592592592593
  historical:           5.471886666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Vail"
    title: "Peter Vail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "بيتر فيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Vail"
    title: "Peter Vail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Vail"
    title: "Peter Vail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Vail"
    title: "Peter Vail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Vail"
    title: "Peter Vail"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2078778"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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