# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-t-durrance
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:19:49.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-t-durrance"
name: "Samuel T. Durrance"
slug: "samuel-t-durrance"
description: "Samuel Thornton Durrance was an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions as a payload specialist."
tagline: "American scientist (1943–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Durrance.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-09-17"
deathDate: "2023-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.844155844155844
  historical:           13.54586133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Samuel T. Durrance"
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    title: "Samuel T. Durrance"
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    title: "Samuel Thornton Durrance"
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    title: "Samuel T. Durrance"
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    title: "Samuel Durrance"
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    title: "Samuel Durrance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump