# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rene-pomerleau
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:53:49.770Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rene-pomerleau"
name: "René Pomerleau"
slug: "rene-pomerleau"
description: "René Pomerleau, was a mycologist and plant pathologist whose specialty was fungi and lichens. He received a Bachelor of Agricultural Science from Laval University before an MS at the McGill University and later study at the Sorbonne. In 1972, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Sir George Williams University, which later became Concordia University. He has been called the \"Father of mycology in Canada\" and seen as a pioneering plant pathologist. The film La mycolade also had him as the main character."
tagline: "Canadian biologist and mycologist (1904-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rene_Pomerleau.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1904-04-27"
deathDate: "1993-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.801548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Pomerleau"
    title: "René Pomerleau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Pomerleau"
    title: "René Pomerleau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Pomerleau"
    title: "René Pomerleau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BB%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5"
    title: "Померло, Рене"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Pomerleau"
    title: "René Pomerleau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3426762"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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