# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-scherrer
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:29:35.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-scherrer"
name: "Paul Scherrer"
slug: "paul-scherrer"
description: "Paul Hermann Scherrer was a Swiss physicist. Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he studied at Göttingen, Germany, before becoming a lecturer there. Later, Scherrer became head of the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich."
tagline: "Swiss physicist (1890-1969)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ETH-BIB-Scherrer%2C_Paul_(1890-1969)-Portr_06809_(cropped).tif?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CH"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1890-02-03"
deathDate: "1969-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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