# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-h-keating
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:00:15.622Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-h-keating"
name: "William H. Keating"
slug: "william-h-keating"
description: "William Hypolitus Keating was an American geologist. His father, Baron John Keating, of Irish ancestry, had been an officer in the French army in the West Indies and had settled in Wilmington, Delaware. Keating was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and then in France and Switzerland, where he studied mining. In 1822, he became Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the American Philosophical Society."
tagline: "American geologist (1799–1840)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1799-08-11"
deathDate: "1840"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.6
  momentum:             1.530612244897959
  historical:           5.470734666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Keating"
    title: "William H. Keating"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A5%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA"
    title: "ويليام إتش كيتينغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "ويليام اتش كيتينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%9A%D1%96%D1%82%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Вільям Кітінг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Keating"
    title: "William Keating"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hippolitus_Keating"
    title: "William Hippolitus Keating"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3568756"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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