# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexey-olovnikov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:15:05.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexey-olovnikov"
name: "Alexey Olovnikov"
slug: "alexey-olovnikov"
description: "Alexey Matveyevich Olovnikov was a Russian biologist. Among other things, in 1971, he was the first to recognize the problem of telomere shortening, to predict the existence of telomerase, and to suggest the telomere hypothesis of aging and the relationship of telomeres to cancer."
tagline: "Russian biologist (1936–2022)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-10-10"
deathDate: "2022-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.09
  momentum:             13.38461538461539
  historical:           5.678330666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "الکسی اولوونیکوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "اليكسى اولوفنيكوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Olovnikov"
    title: "Alexey Olovnikov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Оловников, Алексей Матвеевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alekse%C3%AF_Olovnikov"
    title: "Alekseï Olovnikov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%8C%EB%A0%89%EC%84%B8%EC%9D%B4_%EC%98%AC%EB%A1%9C%EB%B8%8C%EB%8B%88%EC%BD%94%ED%94%84"
    title: "알렉세이 올로브니코프"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2832627"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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