# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilson-bentley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:50:24.028Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilson-bentley"
name: "Wilson Bentley"
slug: "wilson-bentley"
description: "Wilson Alwyn Bentley, also known as Snowflake Bentley, was an American meteorologist and photographer, who was the first known person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet such that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated, and elaborated the theory that no two snowflakes are identical."
tagline: "American photographer (1867-1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilson_%22Snowflake%22_Bentley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1865-02-09"
deathDate: "1931-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump