# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eckard-wimmer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:44.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eckard-wimmer"
name: "Eckard Wimmer"
slug: "eckard-wimmer"
description: "Eckard Wimmer is a German American virologist, organic chemist and distinguished professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at Stony Brook University. He is best known for his seminal work on the molecular biology of poliovirus and the first chemical synthesis of a viral genome capable of infection and subsequent production of live viruses."
tagline: "American virologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-05-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.31
  momentum:             4.705882352941176
  historical:           5.275486666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Eckard Wimmer"
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    title: "ايكارد فيمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اکرارد ویمر"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckard_Wimmer"
    title: "Eckard Wimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "எக்கார்ட் விம்மர்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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