# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/theodore-puck
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:38:35.804Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/theodore-puck"
name: "Theodore Puck"
slug: "theodore-puck"
description: "Theodore Thomas Puck was an American geneticist born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Chicago public schools and obtained his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree from the University of Chicago. His PhD work was on the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom and his doctoral adviser was James Franck. During WW II Puck stayed at the University of Chicago. There he worked in the laboratory of Oswald H. Robertson on the study of how bacteria and viruses can spread through the air and on dust particles. After a postdoc position in the laboratory of Renato Dulbecco, Puck was recruited in 1948 to establish and chair the University of Colorado School of Medicine's department of biophysics. He retired from the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1995 as professor emeritus, but continued to do laboratory work there until a few weeks before his death."
tagline: "American geneticist (1916–2005)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-09-24"
deathDate: "2005-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.339525333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Theodore Puck"
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    title: "Theodore Puck"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump