# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kimishige-ishizaka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:43:53.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kimishige-ishizaka"
name: "Kimishige Ishizaka"
slug: "kimishige-ishizaka"
description: "Kimishige \"Kimi\" Ishizaka  was a Japanese immunologist who, with his wife Teruko Ishizaka, discovered the antibody class Immunoglobulin E (IgE) in 1966–1967. Their work was regarded as a major breakthrough in the understanding of allergy. He was awarded the 1973 Gairdner Foundation International Award and the 2000 Japan Prize for his work in immunology."
tagline: "Japanese Immunologist (1925-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kimishige_Ishizaka_19971212.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-12-03"
deathDate: "2018-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.92
  momentum:             0.3633491311216429
  historical:           8.290282666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E5%9D%82%E5%85%AC%E6%88%90"
    title: "石坂公成"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishizaka_Kimishige"
    title: "Ishizaka Kimishige"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimishige_Ishizaka"
    title: "Kimishige Ishizaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimishige_Ishizaka"
    title: "Kimishige Ishizaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimishige_Ishizaka"
    title: "Kimishige Ishizaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E5%9D%82%E5%85%AC%E6%88%90"
    title: "石坂公成"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimishige_Ishizaka"
    title: "Kimishige Ishizaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimishige_Ishizaka"
    title: "Kimishige Ishizaka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishizaka_Kimishige"
    title: "Ishizaka Kimishige"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q544711"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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