# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-scheel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:39:03.763Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-scheel"
name: "Karl Scheel"
slug: "karl-scheel"
description: "Karl Friedrich Franz Christian Scheel was a German physicist. He was a senior executive officer and head of Department IIIb at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute. Additionally, he served as editor of the journal Fortschritte der Physik, the semi-monthly bibliographic section of the journal Physikalische Berichte, the Verhandlungen of the German Physical Society, and the society's journal Zeitschrift für Physik. From 1926 to 1935, he was editor of the Handbuch der Physik. An endowment by Scheel and his wife Melida funds the annual awarding of the Karl Scheel Prize by the Physical Society in Berlin."
tagline: "German physicist (1866–1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scheel%2CKarl_1928.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: "1866-03-01"
deathDate: "1936-11-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.384615384615385
  historical:           4.802664
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "كارل شيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل شيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Karl Scheel"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Scheel"
    title: "Karl Scheel"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Scheel"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96659"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump