# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lionel-penrose
# Generated: 2026-09-01T07:43:35.402Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lionel-penrose"
name: "Lionel Penrose"
slug: "lionel-penrose"
description: "Lionel Sharples Penrose was an English psychiatrist, medical geneticist, paediatrician, mathematician and chess theorist, who carried out pioneering work on the genetics of intellectual disability. Penrose was initially the Galton professor of eugenics (1945–1963) at University College London, before having his title changed to professor of human genetics (1963–1965) at his request. He was later emeritus professor."
tagline: "British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician, and chess theorist (*1898 – †1972)"
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  isoCode: "GB"
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birthDate: "1898-06-11"
deathDate: "1972-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump