# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-boyer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:59:11.878Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-boyer"
name: "Herbert Boyer"
slug: "herbert-boyer"
description: "Herbert Wayne \"Herb\" Boyer is an American biotechnologist, researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg, he discovered recombinant DNA, a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, which aided in jump-starting the field of genetic engineering. By 1969, he had performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of E. coli with especially useful properties."
tagline: "American researcher and businessman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herb_Boyer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1936-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.99536133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump