# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frans-alfons-janssens
# Generated: 2026-08-15T15:32:48.361Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frans-alfons-janssens"
name: "Frans Alfons Janssens"
slug: "frans-alfons-janssens"
description: "Frans Alfons Ignace Maria Janssens was Catholic priest and the discoverer of crossing-over of genes during meiosis, which he called \"chiasmatypie\". His work was continued by the Nobel Prize winner Thomas Hunt Morgan to develop the theory of genetic linkage."
tagline: "Belgian biologist and university teacher (1865-1924)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frans_Janssens.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1863-07-23"
deathDate: "1924-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.69
  momentum:             22.96610169491525
  historical:           4.803816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "فرانس ألفونس يانسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Alfons_Janssens"
    title: "Frans Alfons Janssens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Alfons_Janssens"
    title: "Frans Alfons Janssens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Alfons_Janssens"
    title: "Frans Alfons Janssens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Alfons_Janssens"
    title: "Frans Alfons Janssens"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3850675"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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