# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-prasher
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:09:07.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-prasher"
name: "Douglas Prasher"
slug: "douglas-prasher"
description: "Douglas C. Prasher is an American molecular biologist. He is known for his work to clone and sequence the genes for the photoprotein aequorin and green fluorescent protein (GFP) and for his proposal to use GFP as a tracer molecule. He communicated his pioneering work to Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien, but by 1991 he was unable to obtain further research funding, and left academia. Eventually, he had to abandon science. Chalfie and Tsien were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that they publicly acknowledged was substantially based on Prasher's work; through their efforts and those of others, he returned to scientific research in June 2010."
tagline: "American molecular biologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.9
  momentum:             17.96348314606741
  historical:           5.899894666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher"
    title: "Douglas Prasher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher"
    title: "Douglas Prasher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher"
    title: "Douglas Prasher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%81%93%E6%A0%BC%E6%8B%89%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E6%99%AE%E6%8B%89%E4%BF%AE"
    title: "道格拉斯·普拉修"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher"
    title: "Douglas Prasher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%B0%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ダグラス・プラッシャー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1252427"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump