# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edouard-van-beneden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:10:34.046Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edouard-van-beneden"
name: "Edouard Van Beneden"
slug: "edouard-van-beneden"
description: "Édouard Joseph Louis Marie Van Beneden was a Belgian embryologist, cytologist and marine biologist. He was professor of zoology at the University of Liège. He contributed to cytogenetics by his works on the roundworm Ascaris. In this work he discovered how chromosomes organized meiosis."
tagline: "Belgian cytologist, embryologist, marine biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%C3%89douard_Van_Beneden.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1846-03-05"
deathDate: "1910-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.21098
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  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