# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-swaab
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:48.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-swaab"
name: "Dick Swaab"
slug: "dick-swaab"
description: "Dick Frans Swaab is a Dutch physician and neurobiologist. He is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam and was until 2005 Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences."
tagline: "Dutch physician and neurobiologist"
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country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1944-12-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump