# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-l-jorgensen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:46:06.812Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-l-jorgensen"
name: "William L. Jorgensen"
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description: "William L. Jorgensen is an American chemist specializing in computational and medicinal chemistry, serving as the Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University since 2009, having joined the Yale faculty in 1990."
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birthDate: "1949-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump