# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-c-atkinson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:04:39.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-c-atkinson"
name: "Richard C. Atkinson"
slug: "richard-c-atkinson"
description: "Richard Chatham Atkinson is an American professor of cognitive science and psychology. He served as the 17th president of the University of California, as the 5th chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, and as the 5th director of the National Science Foundation."
tagline: "American educational psychologist and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RCARobes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1929-03-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.157921333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 247
platforms:
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    url:       "http://rca.ucsd.edu/"
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    title: "Richard C. Atkinson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard C. Atkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Atkinson"
    title: "Richard C. Atkinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump