# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-mervyn-blow
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:51:02.477Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-mervyn-blow"
name: "David Mervyn Blow"
slug: "david-mervyn-blow"
description: "David Mervyn Blow was a British biophysicist. He was best known for the development of X-ray crystallography, a technique used to determine the molecular structures of tens of thousands of biological molecules."
tagline: "British biophysicist (1931–2004)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-06-27"
deathDate: "2004-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.736753333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David M. Blow"
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    title: "David Mervyn Blow"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump