# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-roberts-q309816
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:39:42.175Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-roberts-q309816"
name: "Richard Roberts"
slug: "richard-roberts-q309816"
description: "Sir Richard John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs."
tagline: "English biochemist and molecular biologist"
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birthDate: "1943-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump