# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-lenski
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:58:51.492Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-lenski"
name: "Richard Lenski"
slug: "richard-lenski"
description: "Richard E. Lenski is an American evolutionary biologist who is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a MacArthur Fellow. Lenski is best known for his still ongoing 38-year-old long-term E. coli evolution experiment, which has been instrumental in understanding the core processes of evolution, including mutation rates, clonal interference, antibiotic resistance, the evolution of novel traits, and speciation. He is also well known for his pioneering work in studying evolution digitally using self-replicating organisms called Avida."
tagline: "American evolutionary biologist"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1956-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump