# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-rapoport
# Generated: 2026-09-01T21:15:53.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-rapoport"
name: "Tom Rapoport"
slug: "tom-rapoport"
description: "Tom Abraham Rapoport is a German-American cell biologist who studies protein transport in cells. Currently, he is a professor at Harvard Medical School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he grew up in East Germany. In 1995, he accepted an offer to become a professor at Harvard Medical School. In 1997, he became an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is a member of the American and German National Academies of Science."
tagline: "German biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Rapoport.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-06-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.49976540224492
  historical:           5.689202666666667
  currentAttention:     43.68932038834951
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Tom Rapoport"
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    title: "توم روث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Rapoport"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Том Рапопорт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rapoport"
    title: "Tom Rapoport"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rapoport"
    title: "Tom Rapoport"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump