# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paula-hertwig
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:06:58.550Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paula-hertwig"
name: "Paula Hertwig"
slug: "paula-hertwig"
description: "Paula Julie Elisabeth Hertwig was a German biologist and politician. Her research focused on radiation health effects. Hertwig was the first woman to habilitate at the then Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in the field of zoology. She was also the first biologist at a German university. Hertwig is one of the founders of radiation genetics alongside Emmy Stein. Hertwig-Weyers syndrome, which describes oligodactyly in humans as a result of radiation exposure, is named after her and her colleague, Helmut Weyers."
tagline: "German biologist, politician (1889–1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fotothek_df_pk_0000281_045.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1889-10-11"
deathDate: "1983-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.5
  momentum:             0.0819672131147541
  historical:           6.137761333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Пола Хедвиг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بولا هيرتويج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Hertwig"
    title: "Paula Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Hertwig"
    title: "Paula Hertwig"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Hertwig"
    title: "Paula Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Hertwig"
    title: "Paula Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Hertwig"
    title: "Paula Hertwig"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2063554"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump