# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jennifer-thomson
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:03:33.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jennifer-thomson"
name: "Jennifer Thomson"
slug: "jennifer-thomson"
description: "Jennifer Ann Thomson is a South African microbiologist, author and most notably an expert on and proponent of the agricultural benefit of Genetically modified organisms (GMO). Thomson was born in Cape Town, South Africa and she is currently a professor at her alma mater the University of Cape Town."
tagline: "South African microbiologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-06-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.74
  momentum:             5.217391304347827
  historical:           9.203744
  currentAttention:     28.98550724637682
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جنيفر تومسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Thomson"
    title: "Jennifer Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Thomson"
    title: "Jennifer Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Thomson"
    title: "Jennifer Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Thomson"
    title: "Jennifer Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Thomson"
    title: "Jennifer Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Thomson"
    title: "Jennifer Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Thomson"
    title: "Jennifer Thomson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Томсон, Дженнифер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jennifer_Thomson"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22340726"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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