# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-k-thauer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:38:54.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-k-thauer"
name: "Rudolf K. Thauer"
slug: "rudolf-k-thauer"
description: "Rudolf K. Thauer is a biologist and a retired professor of microbiology and heads the Emeritus group at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg. Thauer taught in the faculty of Biology at the University of Marburg for about 15 years and is known primarily for his work on the biochemistry of methanogens."
tagline: "German biologist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.5
  momentum:             3.083333333333334
  historical:           5.672318666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Rudolf K. Thauer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رودولف ك. ثوير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Thauer_der_J%C3%BCngere"
    title: "Rudolf Thauer der Jüngere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "鲁道夫·K·陶厄尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "رودولف کی. تاور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тауэр, Рудольф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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