# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janis-polis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:52:01.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janis-polis"
name: "Jānis Polis"
slug: "janis-polis"
description: "Jānis Polis was a Soviet and Latvian pharmacologist and the developer of one of the first methods of synthesis of rimantadine, which was discovered in 1963 by William W. Prichard of Du Pont & Co. He was born in Eleja parish, Latvia. On 6 February 2009, Polis was awarded the WIPO Award for Outstanding Inventors. Polis died in Riga, Latvia on 12 April 2011 at the age of 72."
tagline: "Latvian pharmacologist, developer of the synthesis of rimantadine (1938–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/J%C4%81nis_Polis.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-06-25"
deathDate: "2011-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.5
  momentum:             5.036261079774375
  historical:           6.603024
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Polis_(kiemavan)"
    title: "Jānis Polis (kiemavan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8"
    title: "জানিস পলিস"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Polis"
    title: "Jānis Polis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Polis_(Chemiker)"
    title: "Jānis Polis (Chemiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Polis"
    title: "Jānis Polis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Polis"
    title: "Jānis Polis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C4%81nis_Polis_(%C4%B7%C4%ABmi%C4%B7is)"
    title: "Jānis Polis (ķīmiķis)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%AE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Полис, Янис Юрьевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2576356"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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