# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-mccrone
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:42:32.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-mccrone"
name: "Walter McCrone"
slug: "walter-mccrone"
description: "Walter Cox McCrone Jr. was an American chemist who worked extensively on applications of polarized light microscopy and is sometimes characterized as the \"father of modern microscopy\". He was also an expert in electron microscopy, crystallography, ultra-microanalysis, and particle identification. In 1960 he founded the McCrone Research Institute, a non-profit educational and research organization for microscopy based in Chicago."
tagline: "American chemist (1916–2002)"
gender: "male"
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: "1916-06-09"
deathDate: "2002-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mccrone.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Walter McCrone"
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    title: "Walter McCrone"
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    title: "Walter McCrone"
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    title: "Walter McCrone"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump