# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ashburner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:02:51.868Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ashburner"
name: "Michael Ashburner"
slug: "michael-ashburner"
description: "Michael Ashburner was an English biologist and Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He also served as joint-head and co-founder of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge."
tagline: "English biologist, geneticist, and bioinformatician (1942–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plos_ashburner.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-05-23"
deathDate: "2023-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.41
  momentum:             4.772727272727272
  historical:           4.607524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "مايكل أشبورنر"
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    title: "مایکل اشبرون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashburner"
    title: "Michael Ashburner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashburner"
    title: "Michael Ashburner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Ashburner"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6828277"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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