# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-forterre
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:16:51.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-forterre"
name: "Patrick Forterre"
slug: "patrick-forterre"
description: "Patrick Forterre is a French biologist and writer. He had served as professor at Paris-Sud University and Pasteur Institute. He is known for his work on Archaea, viruses and the evolution of life. He was the first to use the acronym \"LUCA\" for the last universal common ancestor in a 1997 paper."
tagline: "French biologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-08-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.38
  momentum:             12.92807881773399
  historical:           6.139957333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3668031/"
    handle:    "nm3668031"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patrick_Forterre"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "باتريك فورتيرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Forterre"
    title: "Patrick Forterre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Forterre"
    title: "Patrick Forterre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Forterre"
    title: "Patrick Forterre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%95%E7%89%B9%E9%87%8C%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E7%A6%8F%E6%B3%B0%E5%B0%94"
    title: "帕特里克·福泰尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28324303"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3616112"
    title: "Patrick Forterre"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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