# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gideon-davies
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:45:37.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gideon-davies"
name: "Gideon Davies"
slug: "gideon-davies"
description: "Gideon John Davies is a British structural biologist and chemist known for his research on the structure, mechanism, and biological roles of carbohydrate-active enzymes. He is a professor at the University of York and holds the Royal Society Ken Murray Research Professorship. His research work focusses on understanding how enzymes synthesise, break down, modify and interact with complex carbohydrates."
tagline: "English chemistry professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Gideon_Davies%2C_FRS%2C_FMedSci.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1964-07-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           4.804392
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/ProfG101"
    handle:    "ProfG101"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/d-g/gdavies/"
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    title: "Gideon Davies"
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    title: "Gideon Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_Davies"
    title: "Gideon Davies"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump