# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-wheelis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:33:29.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-wheelis"
name: "Mark Wheelis"
slug: "mark-wheelis"
description: "Mark L. Wheelis is an American microbiologist. Wheelis is currently a professor in the College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis. Carl Woese and Otto Kandler with Wheelis wrote the important paper Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya that proposed a change from the Two-empire system of Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes to the Three-domain system of the domains Eukaryota, Bacteria and Archaea."
tagline: "American microbiologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           37.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.072318666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1638347/"
    handle:    "nm1638347"
sources:
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wheelis"
    title: "Mark Wheelis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wheelis"
    title: "Mark Wheelis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wheelis"
    title: "Mark Wheelis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_L._Wheelis"
    title: "Mark L. Wheelis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wheelis"
    title: "Mark Wheelis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wheelis"
    title: "Mark Wheelis"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11935606"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump