# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-g-roeder
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:25:51.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-g-roeder"
name: "Robert G. Roeder"
slug: "robert-g-roeder"
description: "Robert G. Roeder is an American biochemist. He is known as a pioneer scientist in eukaryotic transcription. He discovered three distinct nuclear RNA polymerases in 1969 and characterized many proteins involved in the regulation of transcription, including basic transcription factors and the first mammalian gene-specific activator over five decades of research. He is the recipient of the Gairdner Foundation International Award in 2000, the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2003, and the Kyoto Prize in 2021. He currently serves as Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Biochemical and Molecular Biology at Rockefeller University."
tagline: "American biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_G_Roeder.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: "1942-06-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.13
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.411844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "羅伯特·羅德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رابرت جرج رودر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Roeder"
    title: "Robert G. Roeder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Roeder"
    title: "Robert G. Roeder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Roeder"
    title: "Robert Roeder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ロバート・ローダー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert Roeder"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q900586"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump