# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-mather
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:41:03.253Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-mather"
name: "Kenneth Mather"
slug: "kenneth-mather"
description: "Sir Kenneth Mather CBE FRS was a British geneticist and botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1949, and won its Darwin Medal in 1964. He was the second vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, serving from 1965 to 1971. He was instrumental in persuading the University Grants Committee to establish a new Medical School at the university."
tagline: "Botanist, Geneticist, University administrator (1911-1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911"
deathDate: "1990-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.3
  momentum:             3.928571428571428
  historical:           6.537545333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Мазер, Кеннет"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B0%D8%B1"
    title: "كينيث ماذر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%B1"
    title: "كينيث ماثر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Mather"
    title: "Kenneth Mather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Mather"
    title: "Kenneth Mather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Mather"
    title: "Kenneth Mather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Mather"
    title: "Kenneth Mather"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2392474"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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