# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/valentina-pavlovna-wasson
# Generated: 2026-08-16T04:40:57.532Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/valentina-pavlovna-wasson"
name: "Valentina Pavlovna Wasson"
slug: "valentina-pavlovna-wasson"
description: "Valentina Pavlovna (Guercken) Wasson (1901–1958) was a Russian-American pediatrician, ethnomycologist and author. She was involved in the introduction of psychoactive mushrooms to a wide audience in the United States."
tagline: "Russian-American pediatrician, ethnomycologist and author"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Valentina_Pavlovna_Wasson.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1901"
deathDate: "1958-12-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.904761904761905
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Valentina Pavlovna Wasson"
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    title: "Valentina Pavlovna Wasson"
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    title: "Valentina Pavlovna Wasson"
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    title: "Valentina Pavlovna Wasson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump