# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-caton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:47:13.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-caton"
name: "Richard Caton"
slug: "richard-caton"
description: "Richard Caton, of Liverpool, England, was a British physician, physiologist and Lord Mayor of Liverpool who was crucial in discovering the electrical nature of the brain and laid the groundwork for Hans Berger to discover alpha wave activity in the human brain."
tagline: "British scientist (1842-1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Caton_CBE.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1842"
deathDate: "1926"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.25
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.942909333333333
  currentAttention:     0.28
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 232
sources:
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    title: "Річард Катон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ريتشارد كاتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ريتشارد كاتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton"
    title: "Richard Caton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton"
    title: "Richard Caton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton"
    title: "Richard Caton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton"
    title: "Richard Caton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardus_Caton"
    title: "Ricardus Caton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Caton"
    title: "Richard Caton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Кейтон, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q322405"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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