# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edwin-b-astwood
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:00:52.460Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edwin-b-astwood"
name: "Edwin B. Astwood"
slug: "edwin-b-astwood"
description: "Edwin Bennett Astwood was a Bermudian physiologist and endocrinologist: his research on endocrine system led to treatments for hyperthyroidism, first published in 1943 in what has subsequently been called a \"landmark\" paper. In 1949 he showed that methimazole was superior to alternative therapies for Graves' disease and this became a standard treatment for the condition."
tagline: "Bermudian-American physiologist/endocrinologist (1909-1976)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-12-19"
deathDate: "1976-02-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.669366666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Edwin B. Astwood"
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    title: "ادوين ب.استوود"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_B._Astwood"
    title: "Edwin B. Astwood"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Bennett_Astwood"
    title: "Edwin Bennett Astwood"
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    title: "Edwin B. Astwood"
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    title: "エドウィン・アストウッド"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump