# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leroy-hood
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:09:58.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leroy-hood"
name: "Leroy Hood"
slug: "leroy-hood"
description: "Leroy \"Lee\" Edward Hood is an American biologist who has served on the faculties at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of Washington. His inventions include the first gas phase protein sequencer (1982), for determining the sequence of amino acids in a given protein; a DNA synthesizer (1983), to synthesize short sections of DNA; a peptide synthesizer (1984), to combine amino acids into longer peptides and short proteins; the first automated DNA sequencer (1986), to identify the order of nucleotides in DNA; ink-jet oligonucleotide technology for synthesizing DNA and nanostring technology for analyzing single molecules of DNA and RNA."
tagline: "American biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lee_Hood%2C_MD%2C_PhD%2C_President_and_Co-found_of_the_Institute_for_Systems_Biology.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-10-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.7507820646506778
  historical:           9.837116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "勒罗伊·胡德"
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    title: "লিরয় এডওয়ার্ড হুড"
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    title: "Leroy Hood"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump