# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benjamin-libet
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:29:32.925Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/benjamin-libet"
name: "Benjamin Libet"
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description: "Benjamin Libet was an American neuroscientist who was a pioneer in the field of human consciousness. Libet was a researcher in the physiology department of the University of California, San Francisco. In 2003, he was the first recipient of the Virtual Nobel Prize in Psychology from the University of Klagenfurt \"for his pioneering achievements in the experimental investigation of consciousness, initiation of action, and free will\"."
tagline: "American academic (1916–2007)"
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birthDate: "1916-04-12"
deathDate: "2007-07-23"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump