# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lewis-thomas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:42:03.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lewis-thomas"
name: "Lewis Thomas"
slug: "lewis-thomas"
description: "Lewis Thomas was an American physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and biologist. He was a longtime contributor to The New England Journal of Medicine, and his essays were collected in several books. He received National Book Award in Arts and Letters and The Sciences for The Lives of a Cell."
tagline: "American physician, poet and educator (1913-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Lewis_Thomas%2C_bio-chemist%2C_author.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1913-11-25"
deathDate: "1993-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.49640266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump