# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-varshavsky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:06:04.581Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-varshavsky"
name: "Alexander Varshavsky"
slug: "alexander-varshavsky"
description: "Alexander J. Varshavsky is a Russian-American biochemist and geneticist. He works at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as the Morgan Professor of Biology. Varshavsky left Russia in 1977, emigrating to United States."
tagline: "American biochemist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alexander_Varshavsky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1946-11-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump