# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stephen-j-benkovic
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:32:09.487Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stephen-j-benkovic"
name: "Stephen J. Benkovic"
slug: "stephen-j-benkovic"
description: "Stephen James Benkovic is an American chemist known for his contributions to the field of enzymology. He holds the Evan Pugh University Professorship and Eberly Chair in Chemistry at The Pennsylvania State University. He has developed boron compounds that are active pharmacophores against a variety of diseases. Benkovic has concentrated on the assembly and kinetic attributes of the enzymatic machinery that performs DNA replication, DNA repair, and purine biosynthesis."
tagline: "American chemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stephen_Benkovic.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1938-04-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3474903474903475
  historical:           6.742981333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump