# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barbara-wharton-low
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:47:57.295Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barbara-wharton-low"
name: "Barbara Wharton Low"
slug: "barbara-wharton-low"
description: "Barbara Wharton Low was a biochemist, biophysicist, and a researcher involved in discovering the structure of penicillin and the characteristics of other antibiotics. Her early work at Oxford University with Dorothy Hodgkin used X-ray crystallography to confirm the molecular structure of penicillin, which at the time was the largest molecule whose structure has been determined using that method. Later graduate work saw her study with Linus Pauling and Edwin Cohn before becoming a professor in her own right. Low's laboratory would accomplish the discovery of the pi helix, investigate the structure of insulin, and conduct research into neurotoxins."
tagline: "American biochemist and biophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barbara_W._Low.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-03-23"
deathDate: "2019-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.95
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.002988
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Wharton_Low"
    title: "Barbara Wharton Low"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Low_(biochemist)"
    title: "Barbara Low (biochemist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Low_(bioqu%C3%ADmica)"
    title: "Barbara Low (bioquímica)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Wharton_Low"
    title: "Barbara Wharton Low"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Low_(ahli_biokimia)"
    title: "Barbara Low (ahli biokimia)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45766574"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump