# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-harper
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:16:28.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-harper"
name: "Peter Harper"
slug: "peter-harper"
description: "Sir Peter Stanley Harper was a British physician and academic who was University Research Professor (Emeritus) in Human Genetics at Cardiff University. His work focused on researching neurogenetics and has resulted in discoveries concerning muscular dystrophies and Huntington's disease. He was knighted in 2004 for services to medicine."
tagline: "Neurogenetics researcher knighted for services to medicine (1939-2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-04-28"
deathDate: "2021-01-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.33
  momentum:             5.294117647058822
  historical:           5.469222666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%BE%D8%B1_(%DA%98%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%A9)"
    title: "پیتر هارپر (ژنتیک)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "بيتر هاربر (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1_(%D8%AF%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "بيتر هاربر (دكتور من المملكه المتحده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_S._Harper"
    title: "Peter S. Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_S._Harper"
    title: "Peter S. Harper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Harper_(geneticist)"
    title: "Peter Harper (geneticist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q655672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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