# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-barwich
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:15:57.648Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-barwich"
name: "Heinz Barwich"
slug: "heinz-barwich"
description: "Heinz Barwich was a German nuclear physicist. He was deputy director of the Siemens Research Laboratory II in Berlin. At the close of World War II, he followed the decision of Gustav Hertz, to go to the Soviet Union for ten years to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project, for which he received the Stalin Prize. He was director of the Zentralinstitut für Kernforschung at Rossendorf near Dresden. For a few years he was director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Soviet Union. In 1964 he defected to the West."
tagline: "German physicist (1911–1966)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-07-22"
deathDate: "1966-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Barwich"
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    title: "Барвих, Хайнц"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump