# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-runemark
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:15:03.459Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-runemark"
name: "Hans Runemark"
slug: "hans-runemark"
description: "Per Hans Bengt Runemark was a Swedish botanist and lichenologist who served as professor of systematic botany at Lund University from 1970 to 1992. Born in Chicago, USA, he graduated from Lund University in 1956 with pioneering research on the lichen genus Rhizocarpon, introducing paper chromatography to lichenological taxonomy. Despite his brief career in lichenology, his multidisciplinary approach established new standards for monographic research in the field. Runemark later shifted his focus to studying evolutionary patterns of vascular plants in the Aegean Islands, particularly island endemics, using the archipelago as a natural laboratory to examine evolutionary processes in small plant populations. His botanical contributions were recognised with the OPTIMA Gold Medal in 1993, and several plant taxa have been named in his honour."
tagline: "Swedish botanist and lichenologist (1927-2014)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1927-01-07"
deathDate: "2014-12-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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    title: "Рунемарк, Ханс"
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    title: "Ганс Рунемарк"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump