# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ursula-wiltshire-goodenough
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:23:46.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ursula-wiltshire-goodenough"
name: "Ursula Wiltshire Goodenough"
slug: "ursula-wiltshire-goodenough"
description: "Ursula W. Goodenough is a retired Professor of Biology Emerita at Washington University in St. Louis, where she researched on eukaryotic algae. She authored the textbook Genetics and the best-selling book The Sacred Depths of Nature and speaks regularly about religious naturalist orientation and evolution. She contributed to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos & Culture from 2009 to 2011."
tagline: "American biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/UrsaMajor.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-03-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.813104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump