# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shirley-jeffrey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:03:53.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shirley-jeffrey"
name: "Shirley Jeffrey"
slug: "shirley-jeffrey"
description: "Shirley Winifred Jeffrey was an Australian marine biologist and naturalist, who researched biochemical separation techniques, specialising in micro-algal research; her discovery, isolation and purification of chlorophyll c allowed for the evaluation of oceanic microscopic plant biomass and photosynthesis. She was christened The Mother of chlorophyll c by one of her early mentors, Professor Andrew Benson of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego."
tagline: "Australian marine biologist (1930-2014)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Shirley_Jeffrey%2C_Australian_scientist.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-04-04"
deathDate: "2014-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.47
  momentum:             9
  historical:           6.601512
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "షిర్లీ జెఫ్రీ"
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    title: "شيرلي جيفري"
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    title: "شيرلى جيفرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Winifred_Jeffrey"
    title: "Shirley Winifred Jeffrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jeffrey"
    title: "Shirley Jeffrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jeffrey"
    title: "Shirley Jeffrey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Jeffrey"
    title: "Shirley Jeffrey"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Winifred_Jeffrey"
    title: "Shirley Winifred Jeffrey"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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