# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herwig-kogelnik
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:45:31.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herwig-kogelnik"
name: "Herwig Kogelnik"
slug: "herwig-kogelnik"
description: "Herwig Kogelnik is an Austrian-American electrical and optical engineer. He is best known for his fundamental contributions to the developments in laser technology, optoelectronics, photonics and lightwave communications systems. His work over a 40-year career at Bell Labs earned him the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the National Medal of Technology and many other awards."
tagline: "Austrian electrical engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herwig_Kogelnik_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1932-06-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.205472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Herwig Kogelnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%AC_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "هيرفج كوجلنيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "হারউইগ কোগেলনিক"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herwig_Kogelnik"
    title: "Herwig Kogelnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herwig_Kogelnik"
    title: "Herwig Kogelnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%AF_%DA%A9%D9%88%DA%AF%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "هرویگ کوگنیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herwig_Kogelnik"
    title: "Herwig Kogelnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herwig_Kogelnik"
    title: "Herwig Kogelnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1528517"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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