# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tikvah-alper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:12:48.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tikvah-alper"
name: "Tikvah Alper"
slug: "tikvah-alper"
description: "Tikvah Alper was a distinguished radiobiologist, who had trained as a physicist. Among many other initiatives and discoveries, she was among the first to find evidence indicating that the infectious agent in scrapie does not contain nucleic acid: a finding that was instrumental in understanding the development of the prion theory. She was director of the MRC Experimental Radiopathology Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK, 1962–1974."
tagline: "Radiobiologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tikvah_Alper.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1909-01-22"
deathDate: "1995-02-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  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