# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/klaus-biemann
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:24:29.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/klaus-biemann"
name: "Klaus Biemann"
slug: "klaus-biemann"
description: "Klaus Biemann was an Austrian-American professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work centered on structural analysis in organic and biochemistry. He has been called the \"father of organic mass spectrometry\" but was particularly noted for his role in advancing protein sequencing with tandem mass spectrometry following pioneering work conducted in this area by Michael Barber."
tagline: "Austrian-American biochemist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Klaus_Biemann_NAS.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1926-11-02"
deathDate: "2016-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.71
  momentum:             2.941176470588236
  historical:           5.473002666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Klaus Biemann"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Biemann"
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  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Biemann"
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    title: "Klaus Biemann"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump