# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ewald-weibel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:11:16.844Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ewald-weibel"
name: "Ewald Weibel"
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description: "Ewald Rudolf Weibel HonFRMS was a Swiss anatomist and physiologist and former director of the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Bern. He was one of the first scientists to describe the endothelial organelles Weibel–Palade bodies, which are named after him and his Romanian-American colleague George Emil Palade. He was known for his work on the anatomy of gas exchange in lungs on multiple spatial scales using stereology."
tagline: "Swiss biologist (1929-2019)"
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  isoCode: "CH"
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birthDate: "1929-03-05"
deathDate: "2019-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump