# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-abell
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:59:13.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-abell"
name: "Christopher Abell"
slug: "christopher-abell"
description: "Christopher Abell was a British biological chemist who was a professor of biological chemistry at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry and Todd-Hamied Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. On his 2016 election to the Royal Society, Abell's research was described as having \"changed the face of drug discovery.\""
tagline: "British biological chemist (1957-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Christopher_Abell_FMedSci_FRS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1957-11-11"
deathDate: "2020-10-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.672354666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Chris Abell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کریس آبل"
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    title: "Абель, Кристофер"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Abell"
    title: "Chris Abell"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump