# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sumio-iijima
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:03:59.040Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sumio-iijima"
name: "Sumio Iijima"
slug: "sumio-iijima"
description: "Sumio Iijima  is a Japanese physicist and inventor, often cited for his discovery of carbon nanotubes. Although carbon nanotubes had been observed prior to his \"invention\", Iijima's 1991 paper generated unprecedented interest in the carbon nanostructures and has since fueled intense research in the area of nanotechnology."
tagline: "Japanese physicist, chemist, and nanotechnologist (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E5%90%8D%E5%9F%8E2010F%E3%81%A8%E3%81%A8%E3%82%82%E3%81%AB.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1939-05-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.99273333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://nanocarb.meijo-u.ac.jp/jst/english/mainE.html"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump