# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patience-mthunzi
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:24:06.468Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patience-mthunzi"
name: "Patience Mthunzi"
slug: "patience-mthunzi"
description: "Patience Mthunzi-Kufa is a South African physicist and head of biophotonics research at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. She received the Order of Mapungubwe in Bronze."
tagline: "South African laser scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/2011_portrait_-_Patience_Mthunzi_(6197342763)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1976-05-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.42
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Patience Mthunzi-Kufa"
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    title: "پاتينس مثونزى"
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    title: "Patience Mthunzi"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_Mthunzi"
    title: "Patience Mthunzi"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_Mthunzi-Kufa"
    title: "Patience Mthunzi-Kufa"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_Mthunzi"
    title: "Patience Mthunzi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_Mthunzi-Kufa"
    title: "Patience Mthunzi-Kufa"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ndidi_Mthunzi-Kufa"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump