# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fritz-houtermans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:23:17.339Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fritz-houtermans"
name: "Fritz Houtermans"
slug: "fritz-houtermans"
description: "Friedrich Georg \"Fritz\" Houtermans was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist and Communist born in Zoppot near Danzig, West Prussia to a Dutch father, who was a wealthy banker. He was brought up in Vienna, where he was educated, and moved to Göttingen when he was 18 to study. It was in Göttingen where he obtained his Ph.D. under James Franck. With Robert d'Escourt Atkinson, he made the first estimates of the rate of stellar nuclear fusion."
tagline: "Physicist (1903-1966)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1903-01-22"
deathDate: "1966-03-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump