# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shoji-nishikawa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:24:55.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shoji-nishikawa"
name: "Shōji Nishikawa"
slug: "shoji-nishikawa"
description: "Shōji Nishikawa was a Japanese physicist and a founding father of crystallography in Japan."
tagline: "Japanese physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1884-12-05"
deathDate: "1952-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.94
  momentum:             8.106060606060606
  historical:           5.470446666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoji_Nishikawa"
    title: "Shoji Nishikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%88%DA%86%D9%89_%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "شوچى نيشيكاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikawa_Sh%C5%8Dji"
    title: "Nishikawa Shōji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoji_Nishikawa"
    title: "Shoji Nishikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dji_Nishikawa"
    title: "Shōji Nishikawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E5%B7%9D%E6%AD%A3%E6%B2%BB"
    title: "西川正治"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11628120"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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