# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-gurwitsch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:03:55.184Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-gurwitsch"
name: "Alexander Gurwitsch"
slug: "alexander-gurwitsch"
description: "Alexander Gavrilovich Gurwitsch, sometimes Gurvich or Gurvitch was a Russian and later Soviet biologist and medical scientist who originated the morphogenetic field theory and discovered the biophoton."
tagline: "Russian and soviet biologist (1874–1954)"
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gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-09-26"
deathDate: "1954-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.71
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.62646
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Гурвич Олександр Гаврилович"
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    title: "ألكسندر غورويتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gawrilowitsch_Gurwitsch"
    title: "Alexander Gawrilowitsch Gurwitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gurwitsch"
    title: "Alexander Gurwitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gurwitsch"
    title: "Alexander Gurwitsch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Gourvitch"
    title: "Alexandre Gourvitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A5'_(%D7%91%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%92)"
    title: "אלכסנדר גורביץ' (ביולוג)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Гурвич, Александр Гаврилович"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q744148"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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