# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/friedwardt-winterberg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:23:41.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/friedwardt-winterberg"
name: "Friedwardt Winterberg"
slug: "friedwardt-winterberg"
description: "Friedwardt Winterberg is a German-American theoretical physicist and was a research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is known for his research in areas spanning general relativity, Planck scale physics, nuclear fusion, and plasmas. His work in nuclear rocket propulsion earned him the 1979 Hermann Oberth Gold Medal of the Wernher von Braun International Space Flight Foundation and a 1981 citation by the Nevada Legislature. He is also an honorary member of the German Aerospace Society Lilienthal-Oberth."
tagline: "German physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Friedwardt_Winterberg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1929-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           7.018396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump