# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-hynes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:29:08.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-hynes"
name: "Richard Hynes"
slug: "richard-hynes"
description: "Richard Olding Hynes was a British biologist, who was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focused on cell adhesion and the interactions between cells and the extracellular matrix, with a particular interest in understanding molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis. Hynes is regarded as a co-discoverer of fibronectin molecules, a discovery that has been listed by Thomson Scientific ScienceWatch as a Nobel Prize candidate."
tagline: "British biologist and molecular biologist (1944–2026)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-11-29"
deathDate: "2026-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.210476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Hynes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hynes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump