# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herman-verlinde
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:09:48.175Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herman-verlinde"
name: "Herman Verlinde"
slug: "herman-verlinde"
description: "Herman Louis Verlinde is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics at Princeton University, where he is also the chair of the Department of Physics. He is the identical twin brother of Erik Verlinde."
tagline: "Dutch physicist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1962-01-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.813968
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~verlinde/"
sources:
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Verlinde"
    title: "Hermann Verlinde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Verlinde"
    title: "Herman Verlinde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Verlinde"
    title: "Herman Verlinde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Verlinde"
    title: "Herman Verlinde"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B5%AB%E5%B0%94%E6%9B%BC%C2%B7%E5%BC%97%E5%B0%94%E6%9E%97%E5%BE%B7"
    title: "赫尔曼·弗尔林德"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q794633"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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