# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/spencer-silver
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:15:58.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/spencer-silver"
name: "Spencer Silver"
slug: "spencer-silver"
description: "Spencer Ferguson Silver III was an American chemist and inventor who specialized in adhesives. 3M credits him with having devised the adhesive that Arthur Fry used to create Post-it Notes."
tagline: "American chemist (1941–2021)"
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: "1941-02-06"
deathDate: "2021-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.84068
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Spencer Silver"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Silver"
    title: "Spencer Silver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Spencer Silver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Silver"
    title: "Spencer Silver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Spencer Silver"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Սփենսեր Սիլվեր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump