# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-w-holley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:17:21.990Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-w-holley"
name: "Robert W. Holley"
slug: "robert-w-holley"
description: "Robert William Holley was an American biochemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 for describing the structure of alanine transfer RNA, linking DNA and protein synthesis."
tagline: "American biochemist (1922–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Holley.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1922-01-28"
deathDate: "1993-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump