# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-m-sheldrick
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:37:04.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-m-sheldrick"
name: "George M. Sheldrick"
slug: "george-m-sheldrick"
description: "George Michael Sheldrick, FRS was a British chemist who specialised in molecular structure determination. He was one of the most cited workers in the field, having over 280,000 citations as of 2020 and an h-index of 113. He was a professor at the University of Göttingen from 1978 until his retirement in 2011."
tagline: "British chemist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-11-17"
deathDate: "2025-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.98
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.874262666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ジョージ・シェルドリック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Sheldrick"
    title: "George M. Sheldrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Sheldrick"
    title: "George M. Sheldrick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "乔治·谢尔德里克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6"
    title: "Шелдрик, Джордж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6_%D0%A8%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Джордж Шелдрик"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump