# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-wirtz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:54:51.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-wirtz"
name: "Karl Wirtz"
slug: "karl-wirtz"
description: "Karl Eugen Julius Wirtz was a German nuclear physicist, born in Cologne. He was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces and incarcerated at Farm Hall for six months in 1945 under Operation Epsilon."
tagline: "German nuclear physicist (1910–1994)"
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: "1910-04-24"
deathDate: "1994-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.41
  momentum:             17.20064724919094
  historical:           8.746905333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9132330/"
    handle:    "nm9132330"
sources:
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    title: "Вирц, Карл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل فيرتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "كارل فيرتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wirtz_(Physiker)"
    title: "Karl Wirtz (Physiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wirtz"
    title: "Karl Wirtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "کارل ویرتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wirtz"
    title: "Karl Wirtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wirtz"
    title: "Karl Wirtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wirtz"
    title: "Karl Wirtz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78094"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5354489"
    title: "Karl Wirtz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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