# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-guthrie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:03:41.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-guthrie"
name: "Samuel Guthrie"
slug: "samuel-guthrie"
description: "Samuel Guthrie (1782–1848) was an American medical doctor. He invented a form of percussion powder and also the punch lock for igniting it, which made the flintlock musket obsolete. He discovered chloroform independently in 1831."
tagline: "American physician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Samuel_Guthrie.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1782"
deathDate: "1848-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.673254666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Samuel Guthrie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Guthrie_(physician)"
    title: "Samuel Guthrie (physician)"
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    title: "सैम्युअल गूथरी"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Samuel Guthrie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Guthrie"
    title: "Samuel Guthrie"
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  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Guthrie"
    title: "Samuel Guthrie"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump