# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mario-capecchi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:27:09.051Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mario-capecchi"
name: "Mario Capecchi"
slug: "mario-capecchi"
description: "Mario Ramberg Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knockout mice. He shared the prize with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biology at the University of Utah School of Medicine."
tagline: "Molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MarioCapecchiFotoThalerTamas2.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1937-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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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