# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/stuart-kauffman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:08:20.090Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/stuart-kauffman"
name: "Stuart Kauffman"
slug: "stuart-kauffman"
description: "Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He was a professor at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Calgary. He is currently emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and affiliate faculty at the Institute for Systems Biology. He has a number of awards including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Wiener Medal."
tagline: "American biophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stuart_Kauffman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1939-09-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  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