# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-pearson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:59:12.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-pearson"
name: "Ralph Pearson"
slug: "ralph-pearson"
description: "Ralph Gottfrid Pearson was an American physical inorganic chemist best known for the development of the concept of hard and soft acids and bases (HSAB)."
tagline: "American chemist (1919–2022)"
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: "1919-01-12"
deathDate: "2022-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.76
  momentum:             0.7174887892376682
  historical:           9.808604
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ralph Pearson"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_G._Pearson"
    title: "Ralph G. Pearson"
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    title: "Ralph Pearson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Pearson"
    title: "Ralph Pearson"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Pearson"
    title: "Ralph Pearson"
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    title: "Ralph Pearson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump