# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunter-nimtz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:19:32.818Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunter-nimtz"
name: "Günter Nimtz"
slug: "gunter-nimtz"
description: "Günter Nimtz is a German physicist, working at the 2nd Physics Institute at the University of Cologne in Germany. He has investigated narrow-gap semiconductors and liquid crystals. His claims show that particles may travel faster than the speed of light when undergoing quantum tunneling."
tagline: "German physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Demomirror.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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birthDate: "1936-09-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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