# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-andreas-hofmann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:28:23.314Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-andreas-hofmann"
name: "Karl Andreas Hofmann"
slug: "karl-andreas-hofmann"
description: "Karl Andreas Hofmann was a German inorganic chemist. He is best known for his discovery of a family of clathrates which consist of a 2-D metal cyanide sheet, with every second metal also bound axially to two other ligands. These materials have been named 'Hofmann clathrates' in his honour."
tagline: "German chemist (1870–1940)"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1870"
deathDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.11
  momentum:             11.25
  historical:           4.60252
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "كارل اندرياس هوفمان"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Andreas_Hofmann"
    title: "Karl Andreas Hofmann"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Andreas_Hofmann"
    title: "Karl Andreas Hofmann"
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    title: "کارل اینڈریس ہوفمین"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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