# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mulugeta-bekele
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:06:23.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mulugeta-bekele"
name: "Mulugeta Bekele"
slug: "mulugeta-bekele"
description: "Mulugeta Bekele is an Ethiopian scientist and academic. He is an associate Professor of Physics at Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia. He completed his PhD in Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1997. He has been awarded the Andrei Sakharov Prize by the American Physical Society (APS) \"For tireless efforts in defense of human rights and freedom of expression and education anywhere in the world, and for inspiring students, colleagues and others to do the same.\" He is the president of Ethiopian Physical Society since October 1998 and an Associate Member of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy since May 1999."
tagline: "Ethiopian scientist and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prof._Mulugeta_Bekele.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.069690666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "মুলুগেটা বেকেলে"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ሙሉጌታ በቀለ"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "مولوجيتا بيكيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulugeta_Bekele"
    title: "Mulugeta Bekele"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulugeta_Bekele"
    title: "Mulugeta Bekele"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulugeta_Bekele"
    title: "Mulugeta Bekele"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump