# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-weissmann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:23:53.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-weissmann"
name: "Charles Weissmann"
slug: "charles-weissmann"
description: "Charles Weissmann was a Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist. Weissmann is particularly known for the first cloning and expression of interferon and his contributions to the unraveling of the molecular genetics of neurogenerative prion diseases such as scrapie, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, and \"mad cow disease\"."
tagline: "Swiss biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_Weissmann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-10-14"
deathDate: "2025-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.39
  momentum:             1.053677932405567
  historical:           5.486682666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Weissmann"
    title: "Charles Weissmann"
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    title: "تشارلز وايسمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Weissmann"
    title: "Charles Weissmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Weissmann"
    title: "Charles Weissmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Weissmann"
    title: "Charles Weissmann"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Weissmann"
    title: "Charles Weissmann"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120251"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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