# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/knut-urban
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:51:32.910Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/knut-urban"
name: "Knut Urban"
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description: "Knut W. Urban is a German physicist. He has been the Director of the Institute of Microstructure Research at Forschungszentrum Jülich from 1987 to 2010."
tagline: "German physicist"
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birthDate: "1941-06-25"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump