# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norman-pirie
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:54:21.568Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norman-pirie"
name: "Norman Pirie"
slug: "norman-pirie"
description: "Norman Wingate Pirie FRS, was a British biochemist and virologist who, along with Frederick Bawden, discovered that a virus can be crystallized by isolating tomato bushy stunt virus in 1936. This was an important milestone in understanding DNA and RNA."
tagline: "British biochemist (1907-1997)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1907-07-01"
deathDate: "1997-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.705303309954474
  historical:           11.34096533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "نورمان بيري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Norman Pirie"
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    title: "Norman Pirie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Pirie"
    title: "Norman Pirie"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Pirie"
    title: "Norman Pirie"
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    title: "نورمن پیری"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Pirie"
    title: "Norman Pirie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Pirie"
    title: "Norman Pirie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Pirie"
    title: "Norman Pirie"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%82"
    title: "Пири, Норман Уингейт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Wingate_Pirie"
    title: "Norman Wingate Pirie"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump