# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/krzysztof-matyjaszewski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:17:06.482Z

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description: "Krzysztof \"Kris\" Matyjaszewski is a Polish-American chemist. He is the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Carnegie Mellon University Matyjaszewski is best known for the discovery of atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), a novel method of polymer synthesis that has revolutionized the way macromolecules are made."
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birthDate: "1950-04-08"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump