# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-beaumont
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:12:49.442Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-beaumont"
name: "William Beaumont"
slug: "william-beaumont"
description: "William Beaumont was a surgeon in the U.S. Army. He served as an assistant surgeon from 1812 to 1815, and then rejoined the army in 1820. He became known as the \"Father of Gastric Physiology\" for his research on human digestion on Alexis St. Martin in 1822."
tagline: "American physician (1785-1853)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Beaumont.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1785-11-21"
deathDate: "1853-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.6756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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