# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-peddie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:13:40.954Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-peddie"
name: "William Peddie"
slug: "william-peddie"
description: "William Peddie FRSE LLD was a Scottish physicist and applied mathematician, known for his research on colour vision and molecular magnetism."
tagline: "Scottish physicist and applied mathematician (1861-1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Peddie.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1861-05-31"
deathDate: "1946-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.94
  momentum:             15.90909090909091
  historical:           4.801728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "William Peddie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Peddie"
    title: "William Peddie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Peddie"
    title: "William Peddie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Peddie"
    title: "William Peddie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Peddie"
    title: "William Peddie"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37736851"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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