# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-klein-q513281
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:10:04.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-klein-q513281"
name: "George Klein"
slug: "george-klein-q513281"
description: "George Klein was a Hungarian–Swedish microbiologist and public intellectual. Specializing in cancer research, he was professor of tumour biology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm from 1957 to 1992, a chair created for him, and as professor emeritus continued to work as research group leader in the microbiology and tumor biology center. According to Nature, the department Klein founded was \"international and influential\", from 1967 to 1993, Klein was member of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. In the 1960s he and his wife, Eva Klein, \"laid the foundation for modern tumour immunology\"."
tagline: "Hungarian-Swedish biologist (1925–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Georg_Klein_01.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-07-28"
deathDate: "2016-12-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.5
  momentum:             0.2830188679245283
  historical:           13.35064933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3074525/"
    handle:    "nm3074525"
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    title: "Georg Klein"
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    title: "جورج كلاين (دكتور من السويد)"
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    title: "George Klein (biologist)"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Klein"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Klein"
    title: "Georg Klein"
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    title: "ג'ורג' קליין"
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    title: "Klein György"
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    title: "Georg Klein (biolog)"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Klein"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Klein_(biologist)"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "George Klein"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump