# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-mary-cayley
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:09:13.546Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-mary-cayley"
name: "Dorothy Mary Cayley"
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description: "Dorothy Mary Cayley (1874–1955) was a Sri Lankan mycologist who discovered in 1927 that \"Tulip breaking\" is due to a virus."
tagline: "British mycologist (1874-1955)"
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birthDate: "1874"
deathDate: "1954-12-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump