# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-b-tucker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:44:46.659Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-b-tucker"
name: "Jim B. Tucker"
slug: "jim-b-tucker"
description: "Jim B. Tucker is a retired child psychiatrist and former Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. His main research interests were documenting stories of children who, he has claimed, remember previous lives, and natal and prenatal memories. He is the author of Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives, which presents an overview of over four decades of reincarnation research at the Division of Perceptual Studies. Tucker worked for several years on this research with Ian Stevenson before taking over upon Stevenson's retirement in 2002."
tagline: "American psychiatrist"
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birthDate: "1960-01-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump