# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-jacobsen
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:58:09.583Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-jacobsen"
name: "Eric Jacobsen"
slug: "eric-jacobsen"
description: "Eric Niels Jacobsen is the Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry and former chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University. He is a prominent figure in the field of organic chemistry and is best known for the development of the Jacobsen epoxidation and other work in selective catalysis."
tagline: "American chemist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960-02-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.24
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ерік Якобсен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اريك جاكوبسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Jacobsen (Chemiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Jacobsen_(chemist)"
    title: "Eric Jacobsen (chemist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%86_(%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "エリック・ジェイコブセン (化学者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Eric Jacobsen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Якобсен, Эрик"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump