# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-benson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:45:54.160Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-benson"
name: "Andrew Benson"
slug: "andrew-benson"
description: "Andrew Alm Benson was an American biologist and a professor of biology at the University of California, San Diego, until his retirement in 1989. He is known for his work in understanding the carbon cycle in plants."
tagline: "American biologist (1917-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Andrew_Benson_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-09-24"
deathDate: "2015-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Andrew Benson"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Benson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump