# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elisabeth-tschermak-woess
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:38:57.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elisabeth-tschermak-woess"
name: "Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess"
slug: "elisabeth-tschermak-woess"
description: "Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess was an Austrian University lecturer, cytologist, and phycologist who worked with lichen photobionts. In 1994, Tschermak-Woess was awarded the Acharius Medal for her lifetime contributions to lichenology. She had a Festschrift dedicated to her in 1988, in the journal Plant Systematics and Evolution. Lichen taxa that have been named after Tschermak-Woess include the genus Woessia and the species Asterochloris woessiae."
tagline: "Austrian botanist and lichenologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-01-28"
deathDate: "2001-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             12
  historical:           5.067530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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sources:
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Tschermakov%C3%A1-Woessov%C3%A1"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Tschermak-Woess"
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    title: "Elisabeth Tschermak-Woess"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Tschermak-Woess"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump