# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/polly-matzinger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:23:34.479Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/polly-matzinger"
name: "Polly Matzinger"
slug: "polly-matzinger"
description: "Polly Celine Eveline Matzinger is a French-born immunologist who proposed the danger model theory of how the immune system works."
tagline: "American immunologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Polly_Matzinger.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-07-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.266666666666667
  historical:           8.303962666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1390589/"
    handle:    "nm1390589"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Matzinger"
    title: "Polly Matzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B1"
    title: "بولي ماتزينجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Matzinger"
    title: "Polly Matzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Matzinger"
    title: "Polly Matzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Matzinger"
    title: "Polly Matzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Matzinger"
    title: "Polly Matzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%B4%EB%A6%AC_%EB%A7%A4%EC%B9%AD%EA%B1%B0"
    title: "폴리 매칭거"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Matzinger"
    title: "Polly Matzinger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3395388"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1475189"
    title: "Polly Matzinger"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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