# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerhard-neukum
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:52:35.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerhard-neukum"
name: "Gerhard Neukum"
slug: "gerhard-neukum"
description: "Gerhard Neukum (1944-2014) was a German planetary scientist who worked on the chronology of solar system bodies. He obtained a Ph.D. in physics at Heidelberg University. He was a professor at LMU Munich and at the Free University of Berlin."
tagline: "German astronomer and physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gneukum_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-02-23"
deathDate: "2014-09-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.46
  momentum:             17.41935483870968
  historical:           4.602772
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جيرهارد نيوكوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Neukum"
    title: "Gerhard Neukum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Neukum"
    title: "Gerhard Neukum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Neukum"
    title: "Gerhard Neukum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Neukum"
    title: "Gerhard Neukum"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121284"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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