# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/van-rensselaer-potter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:04:15.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/van-rensselaer-potter"
name: "Van Rensselaer Potter"
slug: "van-rensselaer-potter"
description: "Van Rensselaer Potter II was an American biochemist, oncologist, and bioethicist. Born in northeast South Dakota, Potter was professor of oncology at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for more than five decades."
tagline: "American biochemist (1911-2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-08-27"
deathDate: "2001-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.218396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ван Ранселер Поттер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Rensselaer_Potter"
    title: "Van Rensselaer Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Rensselaer_Potter"
    title: "Van Rensselaer Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Rensselaer_Potter"
    title: "Van Rensselaer Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Rensselaer_Potter"
    title: "Van Rensselaer Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Rensselaer_Potter"
    title: "Van Rensselaer Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Поттер, Ван Ренсселер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Rensselaer_Potter"
    title: "Van Rensselaer Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1926153"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump