# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willis-j-gertsch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:38:16.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willis-j-gertsch"
name: "Willis J. Gertsch"
slug: "willis-j-gertsch"
description: "Willis John Gertsch was an American arachnologist. He described over 1,000 species of spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider."
tagline: "American arachnologist (1906–1998)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1906-10-04"
deathDate: "1998-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.63758389261745
  historical:           10.008388
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Willis John Gertsch"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_J._Gertsch"
    title: "Willis J. Gertsch"
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    title: "Willis John Gertsch"
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    title: "Willis John Gertsch"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Gertsch"
    title: "Willis Gertsch"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_John_Gertsch"
    title: "Willis John Gertsch"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_John_Gertsch"
    title: "Willis John Gertsch"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_J._Gertsch"
    title: "Willis J. Gertsch"
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    title: "Герч, Виллис Джон"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_John_Gertsch"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump