# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roger-revelle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:30:13.898Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roger-revelle"
name: "Roger Revelle"
slug: "roger-revelle"
description: "Roger Randall Dougan Revelle was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego, and was among the early scientists to study anthropogenic global warming, as well as the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. UC San Diego's first college is named Revelle College in his honor."
tagline: "American scientist (1909–1991)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1909-03-07"
deathDate: "1991-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump