# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-rossmann
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:40:07.326Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-rossmann"
name: "Michael Rossmann"
slug: "michael-rossmann"
description: "Michael G. Rossmann was a German-American physicist, microbiologist, and Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University who led a team of researchers to be the first to map the structure of a human common cold virus to an atomic level. He also discovered the Rossmann fold protein motif. His most well recognised contribution to structural biology is the development of a phasing technique named molecular replacement, which has led to about three quarters of depositions in the Protein Data Bank."
tagline: "German-American physicist and microbiologist"
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birthDate: "1930-07-30"
deathDate: "2019-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump