# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-m-church
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:58:42.707Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-m-church"
name: "George M. Church"
slug: "george-m-church"
description: "George McDonald Church is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist, serial entrepreneur, and pioneer in personal genomics and synthetic biology. He is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University."
tagline: "Geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Church_in_2023_06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1954-08-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.11963333333333
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "geochurch"
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    url:       "http://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/"
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    title: "George McDonald Church"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump