# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-wayne-allard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:03:34.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-wayne-allard"
name: "Robert Wayne Allard"
slug: "robert-wayne-allard"
description: "Robert Wayne Allard was an American plant breeder and plant population geneticist who is regarded as one of the leading plant population geneticists of the 20th century. Allard became chair of the genetics department at University of California, Davis in 1967; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1973, and was awarded the DeKalb-Pfizer Distinguished Career Award and the Crop Science Science of America Award. He was honored as the Nilsson-Ehle Lecturer of the Mendelian Society of Sweden and as the Wilhelmine Key lecturer of the American Genetic Association. He also served as president of the Genetics Society of America, the American Genetic Association and the American Society of Naturalists."
tagline: "American geneticist (1919-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Allard_Staff_U.C._Davis_Staff_Editor_1939.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1919-09-03"
deathDate: "2003-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.873563218390805
  historical:           5.470698666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Robert W. Allard"
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    title: "روبرت ألارد"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump