# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kyriakos-costa-nicolaou
# Generated: 2026-08-16T05:22:18.410Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kyriakos-costa-nicolaou"
name: "Kyriakos Costa Nicolaou"
slug: "kyriakos-costa-nicolaou"
description: "Kyriacos Costa Nicolaou is a Greek Cypriot-American chemist known for his research in the area of natural products total synthesis. He is currently Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry at Rice University, having previously held academic positions at The Scripps Research Institute/UC San Diego and the University of Pennsylvania."
tagline: "Cypriot-American chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kyriacos_Costa_Nicolaou.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-07-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.89874266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump