# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-chauvenet
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:07:13.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-chauvenet"
name: "William Chauvenet"
slug: "william-chauvenet"
description: "William Chauvenet was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis."
tagline: "American academic 1820-1870"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Chauvenet.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1820-05-24"
deathDate: "1870-12-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.608244
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ويليام تشاوڤينيت"
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    title: "William Chauvenet"
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    title: "William Chauvenet"
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    title: "Шовене, Уильям"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump