# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-schwartz-cowan
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:49:51.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-schwartz-cowan"
name: "Ruth Schwartz Cowan"
slug: "ruth-schwartz-cowan"
description: "Ruth Schwartz Cowan is an American historian of science, technology and medicine noted for her research on the history of human and medical genetics, as well as on the history of household technologies. She is the author of a widely used textbook, A Social History of American Technology, on the history of colonial American, industrial, and 20th century socio-technical relations."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ruth_Schwartz_Cowan_(2922247399).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.95
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.609288
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "روث شوارتز كوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Schwartz_Cowan"
    title: "Ruth Schwartz Cowan"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Schwartz_Cowan"
    title: "Ruth Schwartz Cowan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Schwartz_Cowan"
    title: "Ruth Schwartz Cowan"
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    title: "Коуэн, Рут"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19872351"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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