# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-buchi
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:37:55.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-buchi"
name: "George Büchi"
slug: "george-buchi"
description: "George Hermann Büchi was a Swiss organic chemist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. \"Paternò's reaction\", known since the early twentieth century, was renamed to the \"Paternò–Büchi reaction\" based on enhancements made to it by Büchi's research group."
tagline: "Organic chemist (1921-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%A1%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BA_%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0_2025-11-19_%D0%B2_17.28.11.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1921-08-01"
deathDate: "1998-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.111111111111111
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Бюхи, Георг Герман"
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    title: "جرج بوچی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Büchi"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B%C3%BCchi"
    title: "George Büchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B%C3%BCchi"
    title: "George Büchi"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D9%88%DA%86%DB%8C"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Büchi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%A7%80_%EB%B7%94%EC%B9%98"
    title: "조지 뷔치"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump