# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gail-roberta-martin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:30:57.109Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gail-roberta-martin"
name: "Gail Roberta Martin"
slug: "gail-roberta-martin"
description: "Gail Roberta Martin was an American developmental biologist. She is known for her pioneering work on the isolation of pluripotent stem cells from normal embryos, for which she coined the term 'embryonic stem cells'. She is widely recognized for her work on the function of fibroblast growth factors and their negative regulators in vertebrate organogenesis. She and her colleagues made contributions to gene targeting technology."
tagline: "American biologist"
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gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-04-02"
deathDate: "2026-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gail R. Martin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump