# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-belt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:41.998Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-belt"
name: "Thomas Belt"
slug: "thomas-belt"
description: "Thomas Belt, an English geologist and naturalist, was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1832, and educated in that city. He is remembered for his work on the geology of gold bearing minerals, glacial geology, and for his description of the mutualistic relationship between certain bullthorn Acacia species and their Pseudomyrmex ants."
tagline: "English geologist and naturalist (1832-1878)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Belt_Thomas_jaguar_frontispiece.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1832-11-27"
deathDate: "1878-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.26
  momentum:             5.135869565217391
  historical:           5.671058666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Belt"
    title: "Thomas Belt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Belt"
    title: "Thomas Belt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Belt"
    title: "Thomas Belt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Belt"
    title: "Thomas Belt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Belt"
    title: "Thomas Belt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%82%2C_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Белт, Томас"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q976510"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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