# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-kermack
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:40:39.612Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-kermack"
name: "William Kermack"
slug: "william-kermack"
description: "William Ogilvy Kermack FRS FRSE FRIC was a Scottish biochemist. He made mathematical studies of epidemic spread and established links between environmental factors and specified diseases. He is noteworthy for being blind for the majority of his academic career. Together with Anderson Gray McKendrick he created the Kermack-McKendrick theory of infectious diseases."
tagline: "British biochemist and epidemiologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1898-04-26"
deathDate: "1970-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40
  momentum:             0.131578947368421
  historical:           7.208316
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "威廉·奧格威·柯邁克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kermack"
    title: "William Kermack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ogilvy_Kermack"
    title: "William Ogilvy Kermack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ogilvy_Kermack"
    title: "William Ogilvy Kermack"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ogilvy_Kermack"
    title: "William Ogilvy Kermack"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ogilvy_Kermack"
    title: "William Ogilvy Kermack"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ogilvy_Kermack"
    title: "William Ogilvy Kermack"
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  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ogilvy_Kermack"
    title: "William Ogilvy Kermack"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18757204"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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