# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hans-zinsser
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:44:05.658Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hans-zinsser"
name: "Hans Zinsser"
slug: "hans-zinsser"
description: "Hans Zinsser was an American physician, bacteriologist, and prolific author. \nThe author of over 200 books and medical articles, he was also a published poet. Some of his verses were published in The Atlantic Monthly.\nHis 1940 publication, As I Remember Him: the Biography of R.S., won one of the early National Book Awards, the sixth and last annual award for Nonfiction voted by members of the American Booksellers Association."
tagline: "American physician, bacteriologist (1878–1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hans_Zinsser.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1878-11-17"
deathDate: "1940-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.28391066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "汉斯·津瑟"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هانز زينسر"
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    title: "هانس زینسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "হ্যানস জিনসার"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zinsser"
    title: "Hans Zinsser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zinsser"
    title: "Hans Zinsser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hans Zinsser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B1"
    title: "هانس زینسر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zinsser"
    title: "Hans Zinsser"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Hans Zinsser"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Цинссер, Ханс"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81_%D0%A6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump