# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-jessell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:12:30.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-jessell"
name: "Thomas Jessell"
slug: "thomas-jessell"
description: "Thomas Michael Jessell was the Claire Tow Professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at Columbia University in New York and a prominent developmental neuroscientist. In 2018, Columbia University announced his termination from his administrative positions after an internal investigation uncovered violations of university policies. He died shortly after from a rapidly neurodegenerative condition diagnosed as progressive supranuclear palsy."
tagline: "American biochemist (1951–2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/28/Thomas_Jessell.jpg/330px-Thomas_Jessell.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1951-08-02"
deathDate: "2019-04-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.679446666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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