# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-fersht
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:21:41.745Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-fersht"
name: "Alan Fersht"
slug: "alan-fersht"
description: "Sir Alan Roy Fersht is a British chemist at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, and an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. He was Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 2012 to 2018. He works at the interface of chemistry, molecular biology and biophysics on protein science, and is sometimes described as a founder of protein engineering."
tagline: "British chemist (1943-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_Fersht.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           9.8144
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.fersht.com/"
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    title: "Alan Fersht"
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    title: "Alan Fersht"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump