# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-ahlswede
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:45:06.681Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-ahlswede"
name: "Rudolf Ahlswede"
slug: "rudolf-ahlswede"
description: "Rudolf F. Ahlswede was a German mathematician. Born in Dielmissen, Germany, he studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis in 1966, at the University of Göttingen, with the topic \"Contributions to the Shannon information theory in case of non-stationary channels\". He dedicated himself in his further career to information theory and became one of the leading representatives of this area worldwide."
tagline: "German mathematician (1938–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RudolfAhlswede.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-09-15"
deathDate: "2010-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             6.666666666666666
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ranks:
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  country:  null
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Ahlswede"
    title: "Rudolf Ahlswede"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump