# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-bunning
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:58:09.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-bunning"
name: "Erwin Bünning"
slug: "erwin-bunning"
description: "Erwin Bünning was a German biologist. His most famous contributions were to the field of chronobiology, where he proposed a model for the endogenous circadian rhythms governing plant photoperiodism. From these contributions, Bünning is considered a co-founder of chronobiology along with Jürgen Aschoff and Colin Pittendrigh."
tagline: "German biologist (1906-1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1906-01-23"
deathDate: "1990-10-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             2.846715328467154
  historical:           5.473002666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Бюннинг, Эрвин"
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    title: "Erwin Bünning"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_B%C3%BCnning"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump