# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robin-holliday
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:49:49.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robin-holliday"
name: "Robin Holliday"
slug: "robin-holliday"
description: "Robin Holliday was a British molecular biologist. Holliday described a mechanism of DNA-strand exchange that attempted to explain gene-conversion events that occur during meiosis in fungi. That model first proposed in 1964 and is now known as the Holliday Junction."
tagline: "British molecular biologist known for proposing Holliday junctions (1932–2014)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1932-11-06"
deathDate: "2014-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.59
  momentum:             0.7872628726287262
  historical:           7.206516000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Holliday"
    title: "Robin Holliday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%8A"
    title: "روبن هوليداي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Holliday"
    title: "Robin Holliday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Holliday"
    title: "Robin Holliday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Holliday"
    title: "Robin Holliday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Holliday"
    title: "Robin Holliday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%9C%EB%B9%88_%ED%99%80%EB%A6%AC%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4"
    title: "로빈 홀리데이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Holliday"
    title: "Robin Holliday"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2063918"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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