# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dieter-carl-wasshausen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T14:07:33.261Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dieter-carl-wasshausen"
name: "Dieter Carl Wasshausen"
slug: "dieter-carl-wasshausen"
description: "Dieter Carl Wasshausen is an American botanist who specialized in spermatophytes. In 1962 he started working at the Smithsonian Institution as a technician. He studied at the George Washington University, receiving a PhD in 1972. In 1976 he became chairman of the Botany Department, a post he held until 1982."
tagline: "German-American botanist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-04-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.84
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.201116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Dieter Carl Wasshausen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Carl_Wasshausen"
    title: "Dieter Carl Wasshausen"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Carl_Wasshausen"
    title: "Dieter Carl Wasshausen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Carl_Wasshausen"
    title: "Dieter Carl Wasshausen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Дитер Карл Васхаузен"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Wasshausen"
    title: "Dieter Wasshausen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Carl_Wasshausen"
    title: "Dieter Carl Wasshausen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Васхаузен, Дитер"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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