# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cyrus-levinthal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:56:34.014Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cyrus-levinthal"
name: "Cyrus Levinthal"
slug: "cyrus-levinthal"
description: "Cyrus Levinthal was an American molecular biologist. He is best known for the eponymous thought experiment Levinthal's paradox, which concerns the folding of protein structure."
tagline: "American molecular biologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1922-05-02"
deathDate: "1990-11-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Cyrus Levinthal"
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    title: "سايروس ليفينثال"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump