# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-d-brock
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:23:04.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-d-brock"
name: "Thomas D. Brock"
slug: "thomas-d-brock"
description: "Thomas Dale Brock was an American microbiologist known for his discovery of hyperthermophiles living in hot springs at Yellowstone National Park. In the late 1960s, Brock discovered high-temperature bacteria living in the Great Fountain region of Yellowstone, and with his colleague Hudson Freeze, they isolated a sample which they named Thermus aquaticus."
tagline: "U.S. bacteriologist and microbiologist (1926–2021)"
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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: "1926-09-10"
deathDate: "2021-04-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.877790666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "തോമസ് ഡി. ബ്രോക്"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump