# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fumiko-yonezawa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:14:29.765Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fumiko-yonezawa"
name: "Fumiko Yonezawa"
slug: "fumiko-yonezawa"
description: "Fumiko Yonezawa was a Japanese theoretical physicist. She was the first woman to be appointed as the President of the Physical Society of Japan and the first Japanese student to have studied at Keele University in Staffordshire, United Kingdom. She was one of the founding members of the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Japan. Her research covered semi-conductors and liquid metals. She led a group of scientists and pioneered in visualising computer simulation."
tagline: "Japanese theoretical physicist (1938-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FYportrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1938-10-19"
deathDate: "2019-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           12.2216
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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