# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-l-kirschstein
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:26:46.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-l-kirschstein"
name: "Ruth L. Kirschstein"
slug: "ruth-l-kirschstein"
description: "Ruth Lillian Kirschstein was an American pathologist and science administrator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Kirschstein served as director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, deputy director of NIH in the 1990s, and acting director of the NIH in 1993 and 2000-2002."
tagline: "American pathologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kirschstein.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1926-10-12"
deathDate: "2009-10-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.472966666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "روث كيرشستاين"
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    title: "റൂത്ത് എൽ. കിർസ്സ്റ്റീൻ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump