# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-fink
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:00:44.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-fink"
name: "Gerald Fink"
slug: "gerald-fink"
description: "Gerald Ralph Fink is an American biologist, who was Director of the Whitehead Institute at MIT from 1990 to 2001. He graduated from Amherst College in 1962 and received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1965, having elucidated the histidine pathway in budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. After postdoctoral study at the National Institutes of Health with Bruce Ames on the regulation of the histidine operon of Salmonella, in 1967 he joined Cornell University where he became a Professor of Genetics and pursued the study of the HIS4 region of yeast. In 1982 he became a founding member of the Whitehead Institute and Professor of Genetics at MIT. Dr. Fink was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1981, to the Institute of Medicine in 1996, and to the American Philosophical Society in 2003."
tagline: "American biologist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-07-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.741649333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "杰拉尔德·芬克"
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    title: "جيرالد فينك"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Fink"
    title: "Gerald R. Fink"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Fink"
    title: "Gerald Fink"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4"
    title: "Финк, Джеральд"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump