# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-losick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:55:00.772Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-losick"
name: "Richard Losick"
slug: "richard-losick"
description: "Richard Pero Losick is an American molecular biologist. He is the Emeritus Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology at Harvard University and was from 2002 to 2024 a professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is especially noted for his investigations of endospore formation in Gram positive organisms such as Bacillus subtilis."
tagline: "American molecular biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Losick.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: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.873110666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ریچارد لوسیک"
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    title: "理查德·洛西克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лозик, Ричард"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump