# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ira-herskowitz
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:48:16.116Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ira-herskowitz"
name: "Ira Herskowitz"
slug: "ira-herskowitz"
description: "Ira Herskowitz was an American phage and yeast geneticist who studied genetic regulatory circuits and mechanisms. He was particularly noted for his work on mating type switching and cellular differentiation, largely using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism."
tagline: "American geneticist (1946–2003)"
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: "1946-07-14"
deathDate: "2003-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.18
  momentum:             13.52305353825367
  historical:           6.740857333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "إيرا هيرسكويتز"
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    title: "Ira Herskowitz"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Herskowitz"
    title: "Ira Herskowitz"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "ایرا هرسکوویتز"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Herskowitz"
    title: "Ira Herskowitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%86%2C_%D0%90%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B0"
    title: "Херсковиц, Айра"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump