# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-dervan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:27:19.281Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-dervan"
name: "Peter Dervan"
slug: "peter-dervan"
description: "Peter B. Dervan is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. The primary focus of his research is the development and study of small organic molecules that can sequence-specifically recognize DNA. The most important of these small molecules are pyrrole–imidazole polyamides.\nDervan is credited with influencing \"the course of research in organic chemistry through his studies at the interface of chemistry and biology\" as a result of his work on \"the chemical principles involved in sequence-specific recognition of double helical DNA\".\nHe is the recipient of many awards, including the National Medal of Science (2006)."
tagline: "American chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_B._Dervan_2017_DSC8599.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: "1945-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.37
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.213248
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://www.cce.caltech.edu/content/peter-b-dervan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پیتر دروان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dervan"
    title: "Peter Dervan"
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    title: "Peter Dervan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump