# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-a-clemens-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:28:34.026Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-a-clemens-jr"
name: "William A. Clemens Jr."
slug: "william-a-clemens-jr"
description: "William Alvin Clemens Jr. was a paleontologist at the University of California at Berkeley. He was faculty of the Department of Paleontology from 1967, then the Department of Integrative Biology from 1994 to his retirement and curator of the UC Museum of Paleontology. Clemens was also director of the museum (1987–1989) and chair of the Department of Paleontology (1987–1989). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1974–75), a U.S. Senior Scientist Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Romer-Simpson Medal (2006), and was made a Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "American paleontologist and academic (1932-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamACLemensJr2008.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-05-15"
deathDate: "2020-11-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام آلفين كليمنس الابن"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Clemens_Jr."
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Clemens_Jr."
    title: "William A. Clemens Jr."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump