# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jack-szostak
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:39:00.940Z

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name: "Jack Szostak"
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description: "Jack William Szostak is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent, Nobel Prize laureate, university professor at the University of Chicago, former professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston."
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birthDate: "1952-11-09"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump