# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/candace-pert
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:37:53.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/candace-pert"
name: "Candace Pert"
slug: "candace-pert"
description: "Candace Beebe Pert was an American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opioid receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain."
tagline: "American neuroscientist (1946-2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/Candace_Pert.jpg/330px-Candace_Pert.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1946-06-26"
deathDate: "2013-09-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.729500163345313
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Candace Pert"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump