# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-walter
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:22:42.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-walter"
name: "Peter Walter"
slug: "peter-walter"
description: "Peter Walter is a German-American molecular biologist and biochemist. He is currently the Director of the Bay Area Institute of Science at Altos Labs and an emeritus professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator until 2022."
tagline: "German-American biochemist and molecular biologist (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peter_Walter_(1954-)_-_from_Flicker_2194972175.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954-12-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1851851851851852
  historical:           13.29438666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "پیتر والتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Walter (Biochemiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پیتر والتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Peter Walter"
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    title: "Peter Walter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump