# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andromachi-papanikolaou
# Generated: 2026-08-16T11:07:05.463Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andromachi-papanikolaou"
name: "Andromachi Papanikolaou"
slug: "andromachi-papanikolaou"
description: "Andromachi \"Mary\" Mavrogeni Papanikolaou was a Greek laboratory technician and the wife of Georgios Papanikolaou, the Greek pathologist who independently invented the pap test. For 21 years, Mary Papanikolaou volunteered to have her cervix sampled and smeared by her husband to help with his efforts to create the pap test, which has been shown to reduce cervical cancer deaths by up to 80 percent."
tagline: "Laboratory technician and the wife of Georgios Papanikolaou"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1890"
deathDate: "1982-10-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.84
  momentum:             3.913043478260867
  historical:           3.747553333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromachi_Papanikolaou"
    title: "Andromachi Papanikolaou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromachi_Mavrogenous_Papanikolaou"
    title: "Andromachi Mavrogenous Papanikolaou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromachi_Papanikolaou"
    title: "Andromachi Papanikolaou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%86%E0%B5%BB%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%AE%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%9A%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8A%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%8C"
    title: "ആൻഡ്രോമാച്ചി പാപാനികൊലൌ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q67189031"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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