# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sophie-spitz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:33:08.519Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sophie-spitz"
name: "Sophie Spitz"
slug: "sophie-spitz"
description: "Sophie Spitz was an American pathologist who published the first case series of \"juvenile melanoma,\", skin lesions that have come to be known as Spitz nevi. For her contributions to pathology, and especially for her foresight in advocating the use of the pap smear when it was newly devised, she is recognized as a prominent pathologist of her time."
tagline: "American pathologist (1910-1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sophie_Spitz_MD.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1910-02-04"
deathDate: "1956-08-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.02
  momentum:             11.38461538461538
  historical:           4.604356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%89_%D8%B3%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "صوفى سبيتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Spitz"
    title: "Sophie Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Spitz"
    title: "Sophie Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Spitz"
    title: "Sophie Spitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0_%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%86"
    title: "Софија Спиц"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4794271"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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