# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carlos-bustamante
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:18:06.623Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carlos-bustamante"
name: "Carlos Bustamante"
slug: "carlos-bustamante"
description: "Carlos José Bustamante is a Peruvian-American scientist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1995."
tagline: "Peruvian-American biophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Carlos_J._Bustamante_at_NIH.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: "1951-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.72
  momentum:             2.279411764705882
  historical:           5.878690666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/people/carlos-bustamante"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bustamante_(biophysicist)"
    title: "Carlos Bustamante (biophysicist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارلوس بوستامينت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bustamante_(Biologe)"
    title: "Carlos Bustamante (Biologe)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bustamante"
    title: "Carlos Bustamante"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Bustamante_Monteverde"
    title: "Carlos Bustamante Monteverde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%87"
    title: "کارلوس بوستامانته"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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