# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-r-dickinson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:25:52.364Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-r-dickinson"
name: "William R. Dickinson"
slug: "william-r-dickinson"
description: "William Richard Dickinson was a professor emeritus of geoscience at the University of Arizona and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Dickinson was a professor at Stanford University and joined the U of A faculty in 1979."
tagline: "American geologist (1931–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BillDickinson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-10-26"
deathDate: "2015-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2362204724409449
  historical:           4.81404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ويليام ر. ديكنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ويليام ر. ديكنسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Dickinson"
    title: "William R. Dickinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Dickinson"
    title: "William R. Dickinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Дикинсон, Уильям"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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