# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chad-mirkin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:24:19.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chad-mirkin"
name: "Chad Mirkin"
slug: "chad-mirkin"
description: "Chad Alexander Mirkin is an American chemist. He is the George B. Rathmann professor of chemistry, professor of medicine, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, and professor of chemical and biological engineering, and director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology and Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University."
tagline: "American chemist and university teacher (born 1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mirkin_chad_lecture.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: "1963-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.89413466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "查德·米爾金"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشاد مريكن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_A._Mirkin"
    title: "Chad A. Mirkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Mirkin"
    title: "Chad Mirkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Mirkin"
    title: "Chad Mirkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "چاد میرکین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Mirkin"
    title: "Chad Mirkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Mirkin"
    title: "Chad Mirkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chad Mirkin"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump