# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harvey-itano
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:52:56.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harvey-itano"
name: "Harvey Itano"
slug: "harvey-itano"
description: "Harvey Akio Itano was an American biochemist best known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and other diseases. In collaboration with Linus Pauling, Itano used electrophoresis to demonstrate the difference between normal hemoglobin and sickle cell hemoglobin; their 1949 paper \"Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease\" was a landmark in both molecular medicine and protein electrophoresis, though the use of electrophoresis to separate hemoglobin variants had been pioneered by Maud Menten and collaborators some years earlier."
tagline: "American biochemist (1920–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sacramento%2C_California._Harvey_Akio_Itano%2C_1942_graduate_of_the_University_of_California%2C_who_recei_._._._-_NARA_-_537776.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-11-03"
deathDate: "2010-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             7.959183673469387
  historical:           5.875018666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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