# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/deepak-pandya
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:03:56.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/deepak-pandya"
name: "Deepak Pandya"
slug: "deepak-pandya"
description: "Deepak Narmadashankar Pandya was an Indian American neuroanatomist who is best known for his contributions to the understanding of cortical and subcortical brain connectivity in the macaque using tract-tracing methods. He is the father of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams."
tagline: "Indian-American neuroanatomist (1932-2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Deepak_Pandya.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-12-06"
deathDate: "2020-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.69
  momentum:             2.164948453608247
  historical:           2.472792
  currentAttention:     12.02749140893471
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Pandya"
    title: "Deepak Pandya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Pandya"
    title: "Deepak Pandya"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5250520"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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