# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ingo-potrykus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:18:28.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ingo-potrykus"
name: "Ingo Potrykus"
slug: "ingo-potrykus"
description: "Ingo Potrykus is a German biologist who is Professor Emeritus of Plant Sciences at the Institute of Plant Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich from which he retired in 1999. His research group applied gene technology to contribute to food security in developing countries. Together with Peter Beyer, he is one of the co-inventors of golden rice. In 2014 he was chairman of the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board."
tagline: "German scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Team_Biofuels_with_Ingo_Potrykus_(3668815442)_(cropped)_-_Ingo_Potrykus.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1933-12-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             6.897331524197195
  historical:           6.341613333333334
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump