# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/irving-gottesman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:34:29.719Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/irving-gottesman"
name: "Irving Gottesman"
slug: "irving-gottesman"
description: "Irving Isadore Gottesman was an American professor of psychology who devoted most of his career to the study of the genetics of schizophrenia. He wrote 17 books and more than 290 other publications, mostly on schizophrenia and behavioral genetics, and created the first academic program on behavioral genetics in the United States. He won awards such as the Hofheimer Prize for Research, the highest award from the American Psychiatric Association for psychiatric research. Lastly, Gottesman was a professor in the psychology department at the University of Minnesota, where he received his Ph.D."
tagline: "American psychiatric geneticist (1930–2016)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8d/Irving_Gottesman.jpg/330px-Irving_Gottesman.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-12-29"
deathDate: "2016-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.672462666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump