# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-j-rutter
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:56:40.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-j-rutter"
name: "William J. Rutter"
slug: "william-j-rutter"
description: "William J. Rutter was an American biochemist who cofounded the early biotechnology company Chiron Corporation together with Edward Penhoet and Pablo DT Valenzuela. As chairman of the department of biochemistry and biophysics of the University of California, San Francisco, Rutter helped establish that department as a leader in the academic side of the biotechnology during the San Francisco Bay Area biotech boom of the 1980s."
tagline: "American biochemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Rutter_BIO_SAW_2003.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1927-08-28"
deathDate: "2025-07-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.78
  momentum:             1.524390243902439
  historical:           4.606804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm18638467/"
    handle:    "nm18638467"
sources:
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "ویلیام جی راتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Rutter"
    title: "William J. Rutter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Rutter"
    title: "William J. Rutter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Rutter"
    title: "William J. Rutter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Rutter"
    title: "William J. Rutter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8013327"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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