# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bartolomeo-gosio
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:08:33.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bartolomeo-gosio"
name: "Bartolomeo Gosio"
slug: "bartolomeo-gosio"
description: "Bartolomeo Gosio was an Italian medical scientist. He discovered a toxic fume, eponymously named \"Gosio gas\", which is produced by microorganisms, that killed many people. He identified the chemical nature of the gas as an arsenic compound (arsine), but incorrectly named it as diethylarsine. He also discovered an antibacterial compound called mycophenolic acid from the mould Penicillium brevicompactum. He demonstrated that the novel compound was effective against the deadly anthrax bacterium, Bacillus anthracis. This was the first antibiotic compound isolated in pure and crystallised form. Though the original compound was abandoned in clinical practice due to its adverse effects, its chemical derivative mycophenolate mofetil became the drug of choice as an immunosuppressant in kidney, heart, and liver transplantations."
tagline: "Italian physician, microbiologist and biochemist (1863–1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/GosioBartolomeo_Cannes1920.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1863-03-17"
deathDate: "1944-04-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.539561333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "巴托羅密歐·高西歐"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بارتولوميو جوسيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bartolomeo Gosio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Gosio"
    title: "Bartolomeo Gosio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A6%D9%88_%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88"
    title: "بارتولومئو گوسیو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Gosio"
    title: "Bartolomeo Gosio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BE%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BE"
    title: "Госио, Бартоломео"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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