# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-meissner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:43:09.746Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-meissner"
name: "Karl Meissner"
slug: "karl-meissner"
description: "Karl Wilhelm Meissner was a German-American physicist specializing in hyperfine spectroscopy. He spent the greater part of his career in the United States at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana."
tagline: "German-American physicist"
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: "1891"
deathDate: "1959"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.203888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/187a0c88-8dc0-4fbe-882b-7526a6239cb8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "كارل ميسنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل ميسنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Meissner"
    title: "Karl Wilhelm Meissner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Meissner"
    title: "Karl Meissner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "کارل میسنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Meissner"
    title: "Karl Meissner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Meissner"
    title: "Karl Meissner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96847"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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