# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/franz-halberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:50:31.872Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/franz-halberg"
name: "Franz Halberg"
slug: "franz-halberg"
description: "Franz Halberg was a scientist and one of the founders of modern chronobiology. He first began his experiments in the 1940s and later founded the Chronobiology Laboratories at the University of Minnesota. Halberg published many papers also in the serials of the History Commission of International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy. He also published in \"Wege zur Wissenschaft, Pathways to Science\". He was a member of many international bodies, was awarded five honorary doctorates and was a member of the Leibniz Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. In the 1950s, he introduced the word circadian, which derives from the Latin about (circa) a day (diem)."
tagline: "American sleep researcher (1919-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franz_Halberg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1919-07-05"
deathDate: "2013-06-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.21
  momentum:             7.333333333333331
  historical:           6.142117333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Halberg"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Halberg"
    title: "Franz Halberg"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Halberg"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Halberg"
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    title: "ფრანც ჰალბერგი"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump