# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-woltereck
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:53:39.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-woltereck"
name: "Richard Woltereck"
slug: "richard-woltereck"
description: "Richard Woltereck was a German zoologist best known for developing the concept of reaction norm. He also conducted some of the first research that provided evidence for the process of cytoplasmic inheritance. He proposed the concept in a 1909 paper that he presented to the German Zoological Society, based on his own research on the Daphnia water flea. According to historian Raphael Falk, the concept of the reaction norm was later revived by Richard Lewontin."
tagline: "German zoologist (1877–1944)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1877-04-06"
deathDate: "1944-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.401404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ريتشارد ولتيريك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Woltereck"
    title: "Richard Woltereck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Woltereck"
    title: "Richard Woltereck"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Woltereck"
    title: "Richard Woltereck"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Woltereck"
    title: "Richard Woltereck"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2150956"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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