# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helmut-zahn
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:35:13.310Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helmut-zahn"
name: "Helmut Zahn"
slug: "helmut-zahn"
description: "Helmut Zahn was a German chemist who is often credited as the first to synthesize Insulin in 1963. His results synthesizing insulin were achieved almost simultaneously with that of Panayotis Katsoyannis at the University of Pittsburgh. His work was not honoured by the Nobel Prize because in 1958 Frederick Sanger was the first who discovered the chemical structure of Insulin."
tagline: "Chemist first who synthesis of insulin (1916–2004)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1916"
deathDate: "2004"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.01
  momentum:             0.2068965517241379
  historical:           7.871994666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Zahn_(kiemavan)"
    title: "Helmut Zahn (kiemavan)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "هيلموت زان (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هيلموت زان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هلموت تسان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Zahn"
    title: "Helmut Zahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Zahn"
    title: "Helmut Zahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هلموت تسان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Zahn"
    title: "Helmut Zahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Zahn"
    title: "Helmut Zahn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85507"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump