# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-lindenmann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:00:39.701Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-lindenmann"
name: "Jean Lindenmann"
slug: "jean-lindenmann"
description: "Jean Lindenmann was a Swiss virologist and immunologist. Lindenmann, together with his colleague, the British virologist Alick Isaacs, co-discovered and identified interferon in 1957 through their research at the National Institute for Medical Research. Interferon, a group of proteins involved in immune regulation and defence against viruses, is now used to treat a variety of conditions, including hepatitis C, multiple sclerosis, and some cancers."
tagline: "Swiss virologist (1924-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/UAZ_AB.6.071_Lindenmann_1987.tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-09-18"
deathDate: "2015-01-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.73
  momentum:             16.96261682242991
  historical:           5.471274666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Jean Lindenmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lindenmann"
    title: "Jean Lindenmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جين ليندنمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lindenmann"
    title: "Jean Lindenmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lindenmann"
    title: "Jean Lindenmann"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lindenmann"
    title: "Jean Lindenmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1685650"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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