# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-f-ruddiman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:38:32.520Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-f-ruddiman"
name: "William F. Ruddiman"
slug: "william-f-ruddiman"
description: "William F. Ruddiman is a palaeoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Ruddiman earned an undergraduate degree in geology in 1964 at Williams College, and a Ph.D. in marine geology from Columbia University in 1969. Ruddiman worked at the US Naval Oceanographic Office from 1969 to 1976, and at Columbia's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory from 1976 to 1991. He moved to Virginia in 1991, serving as a professor in Environmental Sciences. Ruddiman's research interests center on climate change over several time scales. He is a Fellow of both the Geological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union. Ruddiman has participated in 15 oceanographic cruises, and was co-chief of two deep-sea drilling cruises."
tagline: "American palaeoclimatologist and professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Ruddiman%2C_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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birthDate: "1943-01-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           7.207272
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Вільям Радимен"
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    title: "William Ruddiman"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ruddiman"
    title: "William Ruddiman"
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    title: "William Ruddiman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump