# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-w-correns
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:20:09.250Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-w-correns"
name: "Carl W. Correns"
slug: "carl-w-correns"
description: "Carl Wilhelm Correns was a German mineralogist who pioneered the field of sedimentary petrology. He was noted as an influential teacher and for his textbook Einführung in die Mineralogie (1949). Correns received the Roebling Medal of the Geological Society of America in 1976."
tagline: "German mineralogist and geochemist (1893–1980)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1893-05-19"
deathDate: "1980-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.75
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.802916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3"
    title: "كارل دبليو كورينس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Correns"
    title: "Carl Wilhelm Correns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Correns"
    title: "Carl Wilhelm Correns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Correns"
    title: "Carl Wilhelm Correns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm_Correns"
    title: "Carl Wilhelm Correns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120929"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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