# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-hershey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:46:01.334Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-hershey"
name: "Alfred Hershey"
slug: "alfred-hershey"
description: "Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist."
tagline: "American chemist (1908–1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alfred_Hershey.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1908-12-04"
deathDate: "1997-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump