# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-betzig
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:35:31.798Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-betzig"
name: "Eric Betzig"
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description: "Robert Eric Betzig is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a senior fellow at the Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia."
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birthDate: "1960-01-13"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump