# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-sayre
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:48:12.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-sayre"
name: "David Sayre"
slug: "david-sayre"
description: "David Sayre was an American scientist, credited with the early development of direct methods for protein crystallography and of diffraction microscopy. While working at IBM he was part of the initial team of ten programmers who created FORTRAN, and later suggested the use of electron beam lithography for the fabrication of X-ray Fresnel zone plates."
tagline: "American X-ray crystallographer (1924-2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1924-03-02"
deathDate: "2012-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  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