# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-works-chaney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:57:42.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-works-chaney"
name: "Ralph Works Chaney"
slug: "ralph-works-chaney"
description: "Ralph Works Chaney was an American paleobotanist. Chaney was the first paleobotanist to develop in detail the use of morphological characters of fossil leaves to deduce ecological information of the given era. He was also the first to use quantitative study of fossil floras in an attempt to arrive at a precise estimate of species dominance in vegetation, understanding that species in a given ecosystem evolve cooperatively."
tagline: "American botanist and paleontologist (1890-1971)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Ralph_Chaney.png"
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: "1890-08-24"
deathDate: "1971-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.04
  momentum:             1.320754716981132
  historical:           4.60216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "رالف يعمل شانى"
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    title: "Ralph W. Chaney"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Works_Chaney"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Works_Chaney"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump