# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-olds
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:58:17.349Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-olds"
name: "James Olds"
slug: "james-olds"
description: "James Olds was an American psychologist who is considered to be one of the founders of modern neuroscience. In 1954, while working at McGill University, Olds and Peter Milner made their most important discovery, initially considered to be the brain's \"pleasure centres\", and now known to be parts of its reward system. Olds received numerous distinctions ranging from election to the United States National Academy of Sciences to the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science."
tagline: "American psychologist (1922–1976)"
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: "1922-05-30"
deathDate: "1976-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           8.284954666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "James Olds"
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    title: "James Olds"
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    title: "James Olds"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump