# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-munro-macleod
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:48:39.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-munro-macleod"
name: "Colin Munro MacLeod"
slug: "colin-munro-macleod"
description: "Colin Munro MacLeod was a Canadian-American geneticist. He was one of a trio of scientists who discovered that deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA is responsible for the transformation of the physical characteristics of bacteria, which subsequently led to its identification as the molecule responsible for heredity."
tagline: "Czech-American biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ColinMacCleod.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1909-01-28"
deathDate: "1972-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump