# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-vermillion-houston
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:35:44.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-vermillion-houston"
name: "William Vermillion Houston"
slug: "william-vermillion-houston"
description: "William Vermillion Houston was an American physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics as well as being a teacher and administrator. He became the second president of Rice University in 1946."
tagline: "American physicist (1900–1968)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WilliamVHouston_Kopenhagen1963.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1900-01-19"
deathDate: "1968-08-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "William Vermillion Houston"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump