# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christof-wetterich
# Generated: 2026-08-16T10:26:08.837Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/christof-wetterich"
name: "Christof Wetterich"
slug: "christof-wetterich"
description: "Christof Wetterich is a German theoretical physicist. He is a professor of theoretical physics at the Heidelberg University. He is known for his work on the Seesaw mechanism in grand unification theory (GUT), quintessence, the Wetterich equation for the functional renormalization group (FRG) and asymptotic safety in quantum gravity."
tagline: "German physicist"
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birthDate: "1952-04-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump