# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-c-wallace
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:56:20.570Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-c-wallace"
name: "Douglas C. Wallace"
slug: "douglas-c-wallace"
description: "Douglas Cecil Wallace is a geneticist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. He pioneered the use of human mitochondrial DNA as a molecular marker."
tagline: "American geneticist"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-11-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.820580474934037
  historical:           5.882794666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  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