# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrzej-tarkowski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:14:47.698Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrzej-tarkowski"
name: "Andrzej Tarkowski"
slug: "andrzej-tarkowski"
description: "Andrzej Krzysztof Tarkowski was a Polish embryologist and a professor at Warsaw University. He is best known for his pioneering researches on embryos and blastomeres, which have created theoretical and practical basis for achievements of biology and medicine of the twentieth century – in vitro fertilization, cloning and stem cell discovery. In 2002 Tarkowski with Anne McLaren won the Japan Prize for their discoveries concerning the early development of mammalian embryos."
tagline: "Polish embryologist (1933–2016)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-05-04"
deathDate: "2016-09-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.162790697674419
  historical:           6.538517333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Анджей Тарковський"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B2%D9%8A%DA%86_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "اندرزيچ تاركوسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Tarkowski"
    title: "Andrzej Tarkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Tarkowski"
    title: "Andrzej Tarkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Tarkowski"
    title: "Andrzej Tarkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Tarkowski"
    title: "Andrzej Tarkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Tarkowski"
    title: "Andrzej Tarkowski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515695"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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