# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-g-knudson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:32:38.824Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-g-knudson"
name: "Alfred G. Knudson"
slug: "alfred-g-knudson"
description: "Alfred George Knudson, Jr. was an American physician and geneticist specializing in cancer genetics. Among his many contributions to the field was the formulation of the Knudson hypothesis in 1971, which explains the effects of mutation on carcinogenesis."
tagline: "American geneticist (1922–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nci-vol-8196-300_alfred_knudson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1922-08-09"
deathDate: "2016-07-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump