# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-falck
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:47:29.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-falck"
name: "Richard Falck"
slug: "richard-falck"
description: "Richard Falck was a German-American botanist and mycologist, who worked as a professor of mycology at the forest academy in Hannoversch Münden before he fled Nazi Germany and the persecution of Jews to finally settle in the United States of America. Falck was a specialist on fungi and on the preservation of timber from fungal damage."
tagline: "Prussian-American botanist (1873-1955)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Doctor_Richard_Falck.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1873-05-07"
deathDate: "1955-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.32
  momentum:             6.923076923076924
  historical:           6.535349333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Richard Falck"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Falck"
    title: "Richard Falck"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Falck"
    title: "Richard Falck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Falck"
    title: "Richard Falck"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump