# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-axel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:00:16.926Z

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name: "Richard Axel"
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description: "Richard Axel is an American molecular biologist and university professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His work on the olfactory system won him and Linda Buck, a former postdoctoral research scientist in his group, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump