# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-rich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:46:54.690Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-rich"
name: "Alexander Rich"
slug: "alexander-rich"
description: "Alexander Rich was an American biologist and biophysicist. He was the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School. Rich earned an A.B. and an M.D. from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling. During this time he was a member of the RNA Tie Club, a social and discussion group which attacked the question of how DNA encodes proteins. He has over 600 publications to his name."
tagline: "American biologist (1924–2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1924-11-15"
deathDate: "2015-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Alexander Rich"
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    title: "Alexander Rich"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump