# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-heidelberger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:53:21.760Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-heidelberger"
name: "Michael Heidelberger"
slug: "michael-heidelberger"
description: "Michael Heidelberger was an American immunologist, often regarded as the father of modern immunology. He and Oswald Avery showed that the polysaccharides of pneumococcus are antigens, enabling him to show that antibodies are proteins. He spent most his early career at Columbia University and comparable time in his later years on the faculty of New York University. In 1934 and 1936 he received the Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1967 he received the National Medal of Science, and then he earned the Lasker Award for basic medical research in 1953 and again in 1978. His papers are held at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland."
tagline: "American immunologist (1888-1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Heidelberger_1954.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1888-04-29"
deathDate: "1991-06-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.742657333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مايكل هايدلبرجر"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Heidelberger"
    title: "Michael Heidelberger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ಮೈಕೆಲ್ ಹೈಡೆಲ್ಬರ್ಗರ್"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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