# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-rossler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:54:17.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-rossler"
name: "Otto Rössler"
slug: "otto-rossler"
description: "Otto Eberhard Rössler is a German biochemist known for his work on chaos theory and the theoretical equation known as the Rössler attractor. He is best known to the general public for his involvement in a failed lawsuit to halt the Large Hadron Collider due to fears that it would generate mini black holes."
tagline: "German biochemist and chaos theorist (born 1940)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Otto_R%C3%B6ssler_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-05-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.8
  momentum:             2.735294117647059
  historical:           7.682254666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3979576/"
    handle:    "nm3979576"
sources:
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    title: "Otto E. Rössler"
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    title: "Otto E. Rössler"
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    title: "Otto Rössler"
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    title: "اوتو روسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Otto E. Rössler"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%88_%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "اتو رسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Otto E. Rössler"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump