# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esther-takeuchi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:04:29.836Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esther-takeuchi"
name: "Esther Takeuchi"
slug: "esther-takeuchi"
description: "Esther Sans Takeuchi is a materials scientist and chemical engineer, working on energy storage systems and power sources for biomedical devices. She is also a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and a chief scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She holds more than 150 U.S. patents. “The battery was invented once and reinvented over 100 times. I don’t own the patent. The company does. It was called Greatbatch. Now it’s called Integer Corp. When you join a company, you sign over your patent rights to the company.”"
tagline: "American chemical engineer and materials scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Esther_S_Takeuchi_at_Purdue_Engineering%2C_2023_-_img_03.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-09-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.6
  momentum:             7.173913043478261
  historical:           9.407668000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Esther Takeuchi"
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    title: "Esther Takeuchi"
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    title: "Esther Takeuchi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump