# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-van-abeelen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:51:33.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-van-abeelen"
name: "Hans van Abeelen"
slug: "hans-van-abeelen"
description: "Hans van Abeelen was the first Dutch behaviour geneticist. He obtained his M.Sc from the University of Groningen and his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Nijmegen in 1965, where he stayed for the rest of his career as \"wetenschappelijk hoofdmedewerker\". He was a founding member of the Behavior Genetics Association and was a member-at-large of its executive committee from 1984 till 1987. He also served on the editorial board of its journal, Behavior Genetics, from its creation in 1971 to 1992. Van Abeelen took early retirement in 1991, but nevertheless became one of the founding members of the International Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society. Over the span of his career, he published 64 articles and book chapters and edited a book, The Genetics of Behaviour, which was an early overview of European behaviour genetics."
tagline: "Dutch behavior geneticist (1936-1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J._H._F._(Hans)_van_Abeelen_thuis_in_Enschede.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1936-11-20"
deathDate: "1998-08-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.529411764705882
  historical:           10.06897066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_van_Abeelen"
    title: "Hans van Abeelen"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_van_Abeelen"
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    title: "Абейелен, Ханс ван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump