# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-r-sears
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:12:19.340Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-r-sears"
name: "William R. Sears"
slug: "william-r-sears"
description: "William Rees Sears was an American aeronautical engineer and educator who worked at Caltech, Northrop Aircraft, Cornell University, and the University of Arizona.\nHe was an editor of the Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences from 1955 to 1963 and the founding Editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics in 1969."
tagline: "American aeronautical engineer (1913-2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1913-03-01"
deathDate: "2002-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             1.574803149606299
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump