# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jane-gibson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:49:33.909Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jane-gibson"
name: "Jane Gibson"
slug: "jane-gibson"
description: "Audrey Jane Gibson was a British-American microbiologist and biochemist who worked in the field of photosynthetic bacteria. She discovered that selenium is required by the metabolism of coliform bacteria and described a new species of sulphur bacterium in the genus Chloroherpeton. She became a Professor at Cornell University in 1979 and was editor of the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology."
tagline: "English biochemist (1924-2008)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924"
deathDate: "2008"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.615384615384616
  historical:           6.336285333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Џејн Гибсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Jane_Gibson"
    title: "Audrey Jane Gibson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Gibson"
    title: "Jane Gibson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%AF%DB%8C%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Gibson"
    title: "Jane Gibson"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28063907"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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