# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-p-blake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:40:59.753Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-p-blake"
name: "William P. Blake"
slug: "william-p-blake"
description: "William Phipps Blake was an American geologist, mining consultant, and educator. He was the first college trained chemist to work full-time for a United States chemical manufacturer (1850) and served as a geologist with the Pacific Railroad Survey of the Far West (1853–1856), where he observed and detailed a theory on erosion by wind-blown sand on the geologic formations of southern California, one of his many scientific contributions. He started several western mining enterprises that were premature, including a mining magazine in the 1850s and the first school of mines in the Far West in 1864."
tagline: "American geologist, mining consultant, and educator (1826-1910)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Phipps_Blake.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1826-06-01"
deathDate: "1910-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.537509333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Вільям Фіппс Блейк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ويليام فيبس بليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام فيبس بليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phipps_Blake"
    title: "William Phipps Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phipps_Blake"
    title: "William Phipps Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Phipps_Blake"
    title: "William Phipps Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ウィリアム・フィリップス・ブレーク"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2580241"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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