# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rowland-biffen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:10:32.690Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rowland-biffen"
name: "Rowland Biffen"
slug: "rowland-biffen"
description: "Sir Rowland Harry Biffen FRS was a British botanist, mycologist, geneticist and a professor of agricultural botany at the University of Cambridge who worked on breeding wheat varieties. He was also a gifted artist known for his landscapes in watercolours. He was the founder of the Journal of Agricultural Science."
tagline: "British botanist (1874-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rowland_Harry_Biffen_(2).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-05-28"
deathDate: "1949-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.39
  momentum:             16.02272727272727
  historical:           8.270158666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Rowland Biffen"
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    title: "رولاند بيفن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rowland Biffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Biffen"
    title: "Rowland Biffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رولند بیفن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Henry_Biffen"
    title: "Rowland Henry Biffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Harry_Biffen"
    title: "Rowland Harry Biffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Biffen"
    title: "Rowland Biffen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4"
    title: "Биффен, Роуленд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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