# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-marius-opitz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:27.638Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-marius-opitz"
name: "John Marius Opitz"
slug: "john-marius-opitz"
description: "John M. Opitz was a German-American medical geneticist and professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is best known for rediscovering the concept of the developmental field in humans and for his detection and delineation of many genetic syndromes, several now known as the \"Opitz syndromes\" including Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome (SLOS), Opitz–Kaveggia syndrome (FGS1), Opitz G/BBB syndrome, Bohring–Opitz syndrome, and other autosomal and X-linked conditions. He was the founder of the Wisconsin Clinical Genetics Center, the American Journal of Medical Genetics, and was a cofounder of the American College of Medical Genetics and American Board of Medical Genetics."
tagline: "American geneticist (1935–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_M._Opitz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-08-15"
deathDate: "2023-08-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.60293463761672
  historical:           6.541757333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump