# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/britton-chance
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:41:37.822Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/britton-chance"
name: "Britton Chance"
slug: "britton-chance"
description: "Britton Chance was an American biochemist, biophysicist, scholar, and inventor whose work helped develop spectroscopy as a way to diagnose medical problems. He was \"a world leader in transforming theoretical science into useful biomedical and clinical applications\" and is considered \"the founder of the biomedical photonics.\" He received the National Medal of Science in 1974."
tagline: "American biochemist and Olympic sailor (1913–2010)"
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birthDate: "1913-07-24"
deathDate: "2010-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump