# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-ziegler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:44:20.789Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-ziegler"
name: "Peter Ziegler"
slug: "peter-ziegler"
description: "Peter Alfred Ziegler was a Swiss geologist, who made contributions to the understanding of the geological evolution of Europe and the North Atlantic borderlands, of intraplate tectonics and of plate tectonic controls on the evolution and hydrocarbon potential of sedimentary basins. Ziegler's career consists of 33 years as exploration geologist with the petroleum industry, 30 of which with Shell, and 20 years of university teaching and research."
tagline: "Swiss geologist (1928-2013)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-11-02"
deathDate: "2013-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.14
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.469582666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "پیتر زیقلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "بيتر تسيغلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بيتر تسيجلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ziegler"
    title: "Peter Ziegler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A._Ziegler"
    title: "Peter A. Ziegler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ziegler"
    title: "Peter Ziegler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q117695"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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