# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-gunther-zimmer
# Generated: 2026-08-15T16:32:08.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-gunther-zimmer"
name: "Karl Günther Zimmer"
slug: "karl-gunther-zimmer"
description: "Karl Günter Zimmer was a German nuclear chemist who is best known for his work in understanding the ionizing radiation on Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and did fundamental work on radiation biology."
tagline: "German physicist and inventor (1911–1988)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-07-12"
deathDate: "1988-02-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.31
  momentum:             0.1657458563535912
  historical:           9.139957333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Карл Циммер (біофізик)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B1_(%D8%A3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B0_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%8A)"
    title: "كارل زيمر (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_G%C3%BCnter_Zimmer"
    title: "Karl Günter Zimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zimmer"
    title: "Karl Zimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "کارل زیمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zimmer"
    title: "Karl Zimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zimmer"
    title: "Karl Zimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Zimmer"
    title: "Karl Zimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Gunter_Zimmer"
    title: "Karl Gunter Zimmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A6%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB_(%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Циммер, Карл (биофизик)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2046795"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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