# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pieter-de-somer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:10:22.235Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pieter-de-somer"
name: "Pieter De Somer"
slug: "pieter-de-somer"
description: "Pieter De Somer was a Belgian physician and biologist. He studied medicine from 1935 up to 1942 at the Catholic University of Leuven. He did research and later became a professor at the Department of medicine, where he specialised in microbiology and immunology. In 1968, he became the first rector of the Flemish Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and he remained rector until his death in 1985."
tagline: "Biologist, physician (1917–1985)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PietdeSomer1967.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-12-22"
deathDate: "1985-06-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.85
  momentum:             0.361842105263158
  historical:           4.81134
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "بيتر دى سومر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_De_Somer"
    title: "Pieter De Somer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_De_Somer"
    title: "Pieter De Somer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_De_Somer"
    title: "Pieter De Somer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_De_Somer"
    title: "Pieter De Somer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q352379"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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