# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maynard-v-olson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:43:00.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maynard-v-olson"
name: "Maynard V. Olson"
slug: "maynard-v-olson"
description: "Maynard Victor Olson is an American chemist and molecular biologist. As a professor of genome sciences and medicine at the University of Washington, he became a specialist in the genetics of cystic fibrosis, and one of the founders of the Human Genome Project. During his years at Washington University in St. Louis, he also led efforts to develop yeast artificial chromosomes that allowed for the study of large portions of the human genome."
tagline: "American scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maynard_Olson%2C_2017.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: "1943-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.538517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "梅纳德·V·奥尔森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماينارد فى اولسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_V._Olson"
    title: "Maynard V. Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Olson"
    title: "Maynard Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Olson"
    title: "Maynard Olson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Victor_Olson"
    title: "Maynard Victor Olson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump