# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-erman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:16:43.677Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-erman"
name: "Paul Erman"
slug: "paul-erman"
description: "Paul Erman was a German physicist from Berlin, Brandenburg and a Huguenot of the fourth generation. His work was mainly concerned with electricity and magnetism, though he also made some contributions to optics and physiology."
tagline: "German physicist (1764-1851)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Erman_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1764-02-29"
deathDate: "1851-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9523809523809524
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump