# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vincent-schaefer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:08:16.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vincent-schaefer"
name: "Vincent Schaefer"
slug: "vincent-schaefer"
description: "Vincent Joseph Schaefer was an American chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. On November 13, 1946, while a researcher at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schaefer modified clouds in the Berkshire Mountains by seeding them with dry ice. While he was self-taught and never completed high school, he was issued 14 patents."
tagline: "American scientist (1906–1993)"
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: "1906-07-04"
deathDate: "1993-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.54
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.492406666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Joseph_Schaefer"
    title: "Vincent Joseph Schaefer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "فنسنت شايفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "وینسنت شافر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%B9_%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "ونسنٹ شیفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Schaefer"
    title: "Vincent Schaefer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Schaefer"
    title: "Vincent Schaefer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q904877"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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