# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-langerhans
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:57:44.744Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-langerhans"
name: "Paul Langerhans"
slug: "paul-langerhans"
description: "Paul Langerhans was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist, credited with the discovery of the cells that secrete insulin, named after him as the islets of Langerhans."
tagline: "German pathologist (1847–1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Langerhans_1878.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1847-07-25"
deathDate: "1888-07-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump