# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-gustav-sanio
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:40:01.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-gustav-sanio"
name: "Karl Gustav Sanio"
slug: "karl-gustav-sanio"
description: "Karl Gustav Sanio was a Prussian botanist and served as a professor of botany at the University of Königsberg. He observed patterns in the growth of plant vasculature and wrote several articles on the organization of wood and cambium. He examined patterns in the size distribution of the xylem vessels in five statements known as Sanio's laws was also among the first to describe the formation of compression wood by conifers."
tagline: "Prussian botanist (1832-1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Sanio.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1832-12-05"
deathDate: "1891-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5128205128205128
  historical:           6.534809333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Карл Густав Саніо"
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    title: "Karl Gustav Sanio"
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    title: "Carl Gustav Sanio"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Gustav_Sanio"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Sanio"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Sanio"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_Sanio"
    title: "Carl Gustav Sanio"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump