# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walle-nauta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:56:14.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walle-nauta"
name: "Walle Nauta"
slug: "walle-nauta"
description: "Walle Jetze Harinx Nauta was a leading Dutch-American neuroanatomist, and one of the founders of the field of neuroscience. Nauta is best known for his silver staining, which helped to revolutionize neuroscience. He was an Institute Professor of neuroscience at MIT and also worked at the University of Utrecht, the University of Zurich, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the University of Maryland. In addition, he was a founder and president of the Society for Neuroscience."
tagline: "Dutch neuroscientist (1916–1994)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916-06-08"
deathDate: "1994-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.77
  momentum:             15.44943820224719
  historical:           6.740029333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Walle Nauta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walle_Nauta"
    title: "Walle Nauta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walle_Nauta"
    title: "Walle Nauta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والی ناتا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ואלה נאוטה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walle_Nauta"
    title: "Walle Nauta"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walle_Nauta"
    title: "Walle Nauta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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