# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susan-lindquist
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:24:21.682Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susan-lindquist"
name: "Susan Lindquist"
slug: "susan-lindquist"
description: "Susan Lee Lindquist, ForMemRS was an American professor of biology at MIT specializing in molecular biology, particularly the protein folding problem within a family of molecules known as heat-shock proteins, and prions. Lindquist was a member and former director of the Whitehead Institute and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2010."
tagline: "American geneticist, molecular biologist, and university teacher (1949–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Plos_lindquist.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-06-05"
deathDate: "2016-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.672400018797875
  historical:           13.75500533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump