# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunther-s-stent
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:13:54.177Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunther-s-stent"
name: "Gunther S. Stent"
slug: "gunther-s-stent"
description: "Gunther Siegmund Stent was a German-American molecular biologist and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. An early bacteriophage researcher associated with the phage group that formed around Max Delbrück at the California Institute of Technology, he was known for his influential textbook Molecular Biology of Bacterial Viruses (1963), his studies on the metabolism of bacteria and the neurobiology of leeches, and his writings on the history and philosophy of science."
tagline: "American molecular biologist and philosopher and historian of biology (1924-2008)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/EMLederberg_GStent_SBrenner_JLederberg_1965_wiki.jpg/330px-EMLederberg_GStent_SBrenner_JLederberg_1965_wiki.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-03-28"
deathDate: "2008-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.97
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.672318666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gunther Stent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B3._%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%AA"
    title: "جونتر س. ستنت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_S._Stent"
    title: "Gunther S. Stent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Стент, Гюнтер Зигмунд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Stent"
    title: "Gunther Stent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunther_Stent"
    title: "Gunther Stent"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump