# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-madelung
# Generated: 2026-09-01T06:12:51.426Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-madelung"
name: "Erwin Madelung"
slug: "erwin-madelung"
description: "Erwin Madelung was a German physicist.\nHe was born in 1881 in Bonn. His father was the surgeon Otto Wilhelm Madelung. He earned a doctorate in 1905 from the University of Göttingen, specializing in crystal structure, and eventually became a professor. It was during this time he developed the Madelung constant, which characterizes the net electrostatic effects of all ions in a crystal lattice, and is used to determine the energy of one ion."
tagline: "German physicist (1881–1972)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1881-05-18"
deathDate: "1972-08-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump