# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hedwig-kohn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:01:22.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hedwig-kohn"
name: "Hedwig Kohn"
slug: "hedwig-kohn"
description: "Hedwig Kohn was a physicist who was one of only three women to obtain habilitation in physics in Germany before World War II. Born in Breslau in the German Empire, she was forced to leave Germany during the Nazi regime because she was Jewish. She continued her academic career in the United States, where she settled for the rest of her life."
tagline: "German-American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hedwig_Kohn.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1887-04-05"
deathDate: "1964-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.66
  momentum:             2.426651305683563
  historical:           17.31746266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump