# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ted-fujita
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:50:18.801Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ted-fujita"
name: "Ted Fujita"
slug: "ted-fujita"
description: "Tetsuya Theodore Fujita   was a Japanese and American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather. His research at the University of Chicago on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons revolutionized the knowledge of each. Although he is best known for creating the Fujita scale of tornado intensity and damage, he also discovered downbursts and microbursts and was an instrumental figure in advancing modern understanding of many severe weather phenomena and how they affect people, airplanes, and communities, especially through his work exploring the relationship between wind speed and damage."
tagline: "Japanese-American severe storms researcher"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1920-10-23"
deathDate: "1998-11-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump