# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peidong-yang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:02:38.098Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peidong-yang"
name: "Peidong Yang"
slug: "peidong-yang"
description: "Peidong Yang is a Chinese-American chemist, material scientist, and businessman. He is the S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Professor of Energy, as well as a Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Materials Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Senior Faculty Scientist at the Materials and Chemical Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Director of the California Research Alliance by BASF and the Director of the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute at UC Berkeley."
tagline: "American chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peidong_Yang.jpg?width=1200"
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"
birthDate: "1971"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             0.2542372881355932
  historical:           8.088302666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://nanowires.berkeley.edu"
sources:
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    title: "杨培东"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پيدونج يانج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Peidong"
    title: "Yang Peidong"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peidong_Yang"
    title: "Peidong Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "پیدونگ یانگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ペイドン・ヤン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peidong_Yang"
    title: "Peidong Yang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD"
    title: "Ян Пэйдун"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peidong_Yang"
    title: "Peidong Yang"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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