# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pasko-rakic
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:56:58.381Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pasko-rakic"
name: "Pasko Rakic"
slug: "pasko-rakic"
description: "Pasko Rakic is a Yugoslav-born American neuroscientist, who currently works in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience in New Haven, Connecticut. His main research interest is in the development and evolution of the human brain. He was the founder and served as Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology at Yale, and was founder and Director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience. He is best known for elucidating the mechanisms involved in development and evolution of the cerebral cortex. In 2008, Rakic shared the inaugural Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. He is currently the Dorys McConell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience, leads an active research laboratory, and serves on Advisory Boards and Scientific Councils of a number of Institutions and Research Foundations."
tagline: "Yugoslavian-American neuroscientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Pasko_Rakic_ForMemRS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-05-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.17
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.144025333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C5%A1ko_Raki%C4%87"
    title: "Paško Rakić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "باسكو راكيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C5%A1ko_Raki%C4%87"
    title: "Paško Rakić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasko_Rakic"
    title: "Pasko Rakic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasko_Rakic"
    title: "Pasko Rakic"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pa%C5%A1ko_Raki%C4%87"
    title: "Paško Rakić"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D1%87%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE"
    title: "Ракич, Паско"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q532002"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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