# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harald-fuchs
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:03.337Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harald-fuchs"
name: "Harald Fuchs"
slug: "harald-fuchs"
description: "Harald Fuchs is a Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Münster, Germany, Scientific Director of the Center of Nanotechnology (CeNTech) in Münster, and co-director of the Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) in Karlsruhe. His research focuses on nanoscale science and nanotechnology, ranging from scanning probe microscopy to self organized nanostructure fabrication, and nano–bio systems. He has published more than 450 scientific articles in various journals as an author or co-author. He was awarded the Philip Morris Research Prize \"Challenge Future\" in 1994 and the Münsterland Innovation Prize in 2001. He is currently member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, the German \"National Academy of Science and Engineering\" as well as \"The world academy of sciences\". He holds two guest professorships in China. He is a cofounder of several nanotechnology companies and a member of the Editorial Boards in several international journals. In 2015 he received an Honorary Professorship at the Nanjing-Tech-University, China."
tagline: "German academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harald_Fuchs.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1951-04-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.157894736842104
  historical:           5.468970666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Fuchs"
    title: "Harald Fuchs"
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  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Fuchs"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump