# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herman-p-schwan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:11:57.802Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herman-p-schwan"
name: "Herman P. Schwan"
slug: "herman-p-schwan"
description: "Herman P. Schwan was a biomedical engineer and biophysicist, recognized as the \"founding father of biomedical engineering.\" He was born in Aachen, Germany, and died in his home Radnor, Pennsylvania."
tagline: "American engineer (1915–2005)"
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: "1915-08-07"
deathDate: "2005-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.33
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.137005333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Шван, Герман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8_%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هيرمان ب شوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هرمان شوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_P._Schwan"
    title: "Herman P. Schwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "هرمان شوان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Schwan"
    title: "Herman Schwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Schwan"
    title: "Herman Schwan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3134086"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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