# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-munz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:21:13.204Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ferdinand-munz"
name: "Ferdinand Münz"
slug: "ferdinand-munz"
description: "Ferdinand Münz (1888-1969) was an Austrian chemist who first synthesized EDTA at IG Farben in 1935, patented both in Germany (anonymously) and in the USA, with the aim of producing a citric acid substitute, in order to reduce the German government's dependence on imports of chemical products from abroad. Münz noted that an aminocarboxylic acid worked much better as a chelating agent than citric acid and therefore thought that a polyaminopolycarboxylic acid would have worked even better."
tagline: "Austrian chemist (1888-1969)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1888-06-23"
deathDate: "1969-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.804788
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ferdinand Münz"
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    title: "Ferdinand Münz"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_M%C3%BCnz"
    title: "Ferdinand Münz"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_M%C3%BCnz"
    title: "Ferdinand Münz"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_M%C3%BCnz"
    title: "Ferdinand Münz"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_M%C3%BCnz"
    title: "Ferdinand Münz"
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    title: "Ֆերդինանդ Մյունց"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_M%C3%BCnz"
    title: "Ferdinand Münz"
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    title: "フェルディナンド・ミュンツ"
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    title: "Ferdinand Münz"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump