# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bodil-schmidt-nielsen
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:29:12.049Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bodil-schmidt-nielsen"
name: "Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen"
slug: "bodil-schmidt-nielsen"
description: "Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen was a Danish-born American physiologist, who became the first woman president of the American Physiological Society in 1975. Throughout her life, Schmidt-Nielsen conducted extensive research on the mechanisms of urea transport, paving the way for many other physiological discoveries."
tagline: "American physiologist (1918-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Left_to_right_Bodil_Mimi_Krogh_Schmidt-Nielsen_(b._1918)%2C_Knut_Schmidt-Nielsen_(1915-2007)%2C_and_Barbara_Wagner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1918-11-03"
deathDate: "2015-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.72
  momentum:             1.111111111111111
  historical:           5.271346666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodil_Schmidt-Nielsen"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodil_Schmidt-Nielsen"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodil_Schmidt-Nielsen"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodil_Schmidt-Nielsen"
    title: "Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen"
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  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodil_Schmidt-Nielsen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump