# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-r-cotton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:11:34.842Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-r-cotton"
name: "William R. Cotton"
slug: "william-r-cotton"
description: "William R. Cotton is an American cloud physicist and mesoscale meteorology educator. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of Atmospheric Science at the Colorado State University (CSU)."
tagline: "American atmospheric scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-10-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.68
  momentum:             8.26086956521739
  historical:           4.603024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "وليام ر.قطن"
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    title: "ویلیام آر پنبه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Cotton"
    title: "William R. Cotton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Cotton"
    title: "William R. Cotton"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Cotton"
    title: "William R. Cotton"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8017202"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump