# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jay-bailey
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:00:13.462Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jay-bailey"
name: "Jay Bailey"
slug: "jay-bailey"
description: "James Edward Bailey was an American pioneer of biochemical engineering, particularly metabolic engineering. In a special issue of a journal dedicated to his work, the editor said \"Jay was one of biochemical engineering's most creative thinkers and spirited advocates, a true innovator who played an enormous role in establishing biochemical engineering as the dynamic discipline it is today\". His numerous contributions in biotechnology and metabolic engineering have led to multiple awards including the First Merck Award in Metabolic Engineering."
tagline: "American chemical engineer (1944–2001)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_E._Bailey_1986.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944"
deathDate: "2001-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.3
  momentum:             6.728110599078341
  historical:           1.559469333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bailey"
    title: "Jay Bailey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6166364"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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