# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/reid-bryson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:57:36.303Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/reid-bryson"
name: "Reid Bryson"
slug: "reid-bryson"
description: "Reid Bryson was an American atmospheric scientist, geologist and meteorologist. He was a professor emeritus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He completed a B.A. in geology at Denison University in 1941 and a Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Chicago in 1948. In 1946 he joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and in 1948 he became the founder and first chairman of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Meteorology and Center for Climatic Research. He was the first director of the Institute for Environmental Studies in 1970."
tagline: "American meteorologist (1920–2008)"
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: "1920-06-07"
deathDate: "2008-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.47
  momentum:             5.585794888815133
  historical:           5.672786666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Bryson"
    title: "Reid Bryson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريد برايسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Bryson"
    title: "Reid Bryson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Bryson"
    title: "Reid Bryson"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Bryson"
    title: "Reid Bryson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2139875"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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