# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-tsien
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:07:48.056Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-tsien"
name: "Richard Tsien"
slug: "richard-tsien"
description: "Richard Winyu Tsien, is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and neurobiologist. He is the Druckenmiller Professor of Neuroscience, former Chair of the Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, and former Director of the Neuroscience Institute at New York University Medical Center, and also an emeritus faculty member of Stanford University School of Medicine."
tagline: "American neuroscientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-03-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.65
  momentum:             2.869565217391304
  historical:           5.288338666666667
  currentAttention:     15.94202898550724
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard W. Tsien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ریچارد وست ساین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_W._Tsien"
    title: "Richard W. Tsien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%92%B1%E6%B0%B8%E4%BD%91"
    title: "钱永佑"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tsien"
    title: "Richard Tsien"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Tsien"
    title: "Richard Tsien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3248932"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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