# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-v-neel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:05:24.357Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-v-neel"
name: "James V. Neel"
slug: "james-v-neel"
description: "James Van Gundia Neel was an American geneticist who played a key role in the development of human genetics as a field of research in the United States. He made important contributions to the emergence of genetic epidemiology and pursued an understanding of the influence of environment on genes. In his early work, he studied sickle-cell disease and acatalasia. conducted research on the effects of radiation on survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bombing."
tagline: "American geneticist (1915–2000)"
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: "1915-03-22"
deathDate: "2000-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.26
  momentum:             1.956521739130435
  historical:           7.608280000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%B3%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Нил, Джеймс (генетик)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D9%81%D9%8A._%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "جيمس في. نيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_V._Neel"
    title: "James V. Neel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_V._Neel"
    title: "James V. Neel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%88%DB%8C._%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "جیمز وی. نیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Neel"
    title: "James Neel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_V._Neel"
    title: "James V. Neel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Neel"
    title: "James Neel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1681225"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump