# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-albert-setchell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:15:59.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-albert-setchell"
name: "William Albert Setchell"
slug: "william-albert-setchell"
description: "William Albert Setchell was an American botanist and marine phycologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he headed the Botany Department. Among his publications are the Phycotheca Boreali-Americana, a multi-volume specimen collection of dried algae, and the Algae of Northwestern America, a reference work."
tagline: "American botanist and naturalist (1864–1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Albert_Setchell_(1864%E2%80%931943)%2C_c._1915.png?width=1200"
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: "1864-04-15"
deathDate: "1943-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.40486
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Вільям Альберт Сетчелл"
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    title: "William Albert Setchell"
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    title: "William Albert Setchell"
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    title: "William Albert Setchell"
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    title: "William Albert Setchell"
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    title: "William Albert Setchell"
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    title: "Сетчелл, Уильям Альберт"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Albert_Setchell"
    title: "William Albert Setchell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump