# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gazi-yasargil
# Generated: 2026-09-01T18:50:33.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gazi-yasargil"
name: "Gazi Yaşargil"
slug: "gazi-yasargil"
description: "Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil was a Turkish-Swiss medical scientist and neurosurgeon. He collaborated with Raymond M. P. Donaghy M.D at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumours with instruments of his own design. From 1953 until his retirement in 1993, he was first resident, chief resident and then professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital. In 1999, he was honored as \"Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950–1999\" at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting.\nHe was a founding member of Eurasian Academy."
tagline: "Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon (1925–2025)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gazi_Ya%C5%9Fargil.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-07-06"
deathDate: "2025-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.25
  momentum:             16.07390733445883
  historical:           17.75838533333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 158
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5221631/"
    handle:    "nm5221631"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump