# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/susumu-tonegawa
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:14:22.362Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/susumu-tonegawa"
name: "Susumu Tonegawa"
slug: "susumu-tonegawa"
description: "Susumu Tonegawa  is a Japanese scientist who was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1987 for his discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. Although he won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology, Tonegawa is a molecular biologist by training and he again changed fields following his Nobel Prize win; he now studies neuroscience, examining the molecular, cellular and neuronal basis of memory formation and retrieval."
tagline: "Japanese biologist, neuroscientist (1939 - )"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Susumu_Tonegawa_Photo.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: "1939-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0.497737556561086
  historical:           21.51707733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump