# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-barton-rogers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:38:07.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-barton-rogers"
name: "William Barton Rogers"
slug: "william-barton-rogers"
description: "William Barton Rogers was an American geologist, physicist, and the founder and first president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)."
tagline: "American scientist, founder of MIT (1804-1882)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Barton_Rogers_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1804-12-07"
deathDate: "1882-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump