# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-winkler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:12:09.025Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-winkler"
name: "Hans Winkler"
slug: "hans-winkler"
description: "Hans Karl Albert Winkler was a German botanist. From 1912 on, he was Professor of Botany at the University of Hamburg, and a director of that university's Institute of Botany. Winkler coined the term 'heteroploidy' in 1916. He is remembered for coining the term 'genome' in 1920, by making a portmanteau of the words gene and chromosome. He wrote:Ich schlage vor, für den haploiden Chromosomensatz, der im Verein mit dem zugehörigen Protoplasma die materielle Grundlage der systematischen Einheit darstellt den Ausdruck: das Genom zu verwenden ..."
tagline: "German botanist (1877-1945)"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1877-04-23"
deathDate: "1945-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           12.00702
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Hans Winkler"
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    title: "Hans Winkler"
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    title: "Hans Winkler"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump