# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-cech
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:29:00.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-cech"
name: "Thomas Cech"
slug: "thomas-cech"
description: "Thomas Robert Cech is an American chemist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Sidney Altman for their discovery of the catalytic properties of RNA."
tagline: "American chemist, biochemistry professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Thomas_Robert_Cech.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-12-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump