# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sofia-simmonds
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:49:01.942Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sofia-simmonds"
name: "Sofia Simmonds"
slug: "sofia-simmonds"
description: "Sofia S. \"Topsy\" Simmonds was an American biochemist who studied amino acid metabolism and peptide metabolism in E. coli. Following training with Vincent du Vigneaud at Cornell University, she spent most of her career at Yale University. After decades as a researcher and then associate professor there, Simmonds became a full professor of biochemistry in 1975, and later served as Associate Dean of Yale College. With her husband Joseph Fruton, Simmonds coauthored the influential General Biochemistry, the first comprehensive biochemistry textbook. Simmonds received the American Chemical Society's Garvan Medal in 1969."
tagline: "American biochemist"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-07-31"
deathDate: "2007-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "صوفيا سيموندس"
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    title: "סופיה סימונדס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Simmonds"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump