# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-s-langer-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:13:33.982Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-s-langer-jr"
name: "Robert S. Langer, Jr."
slug: "robert-s-langer-jr"
description: "Robert Samuel Langer Jr. FREng is an American biotechnologist, businessman, chemical engineer, chemist, and inventor. He is one of the nine Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
tagline: "American biomedical engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Langer.jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1948-08-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump