# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-sidney-cahn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:07:26.054Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-sidney-cahn"
name: "Robert Sidney Cahn"
slug: "robert-sidney-cahn"
description: "Robert Sidney Cahn was a British chemist, best known for his contributions to chemical nomenclature and stereochemistry, particularly by the Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules, which he proposed in 1956 with Christopher Kelk Ingold and Vladimir Prelog. Cahn was the first to report the structure of Cannabinol (CBN) found in Cannabis in the early 1930s."
tagline: "British chemist (1899-1981)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1899-06-09"
deathDate: "1981-06-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.183431952662722
  historical:           6.740137333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump