# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-joyce
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:59:15.362Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-joyce"
name: "Gerald Joyce"
slug: "gerald-joyce"
description: "Gerald Francis \"Jerry\" Joyce is an American physician who is the president and a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and was previously the director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation. He is best known for his work on in vitro evolution, for the discovery of the first DNA enzyme (deoxyribozyme), for his work in discovering potential RNA world ribozymes, and more in general for his work on the origin of life. In 2026, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society."
tagline: "American biochemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerald_Joyce.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.33
  momentum:             2.857142857142857
  historical:           5.011268
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جيرالد جويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Joyce"
    title: "Gerald Joyce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Joyce"
    title: "Gerald Joyce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Joyce"
    title: "Gerald Joyce"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%82%91%E6%8B%89%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7%E5%96%AC%E4%BC%8A%E6%96%AF"
    title: "傑拉德·喬伊斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2654814"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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