# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudolf-schulten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:51:14.399Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudolf-schulten"
name: "Rudolf Schulten"
slug: "rudolf-schulten"
description: "Rudolf Schulten was a German physicist who was professor at RWTH Aachen University and the main developer of the pebble bed reactor design, which was originally invented by Farrington Daniels. Schulten's concept compacts silicon carbide-coated uranium granules into hard, billiard-ball-like graphite spheres to be used as fuel for a new high temperature, helium-cooled type of nuclear reactor."
tagline: "German physicist (1923–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rudolf_Schulten.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: "1923-08-16"
deathDate: "1996-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.77
  momentum:             9.375
  historical:           4.812456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "رودولف ستشولتين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Schulten"
    title: "Rudolf Schulten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Schulten"
    title: "Rudolf Schulten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Schulten"
    title: "Rudolf Schulten"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84_%D0%A8%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Рудольф Шультен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92414"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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