# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-fyfe
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:13:51.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-fyfe"
name: "William Fyfe"
slug: "william-fyfe"
description: "William Sefton Fyfe, was a New Zealand geologist and Professor Emeritus in the department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. He is widely considered among the world's most eminent geochemists."
tagline: "New Zealand geologist and geochemist (1927-2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-06-04"
deathDate: "2013-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.403888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "威廉·賽夫頓·費夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام فيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام فيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sefton_Fyfe"
    title: "William Sefton Fyfe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fyfe_(geochemist)"
    title: "William Fyfe (geochemist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Fyfe_(g%C3%A9ologue)"
    title: "William Fyfe (géologue)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sefton_Fyfe"
    title: "William Sefton Fyfe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%84%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%84%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Файф, Уильям Сефтон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466510"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump