# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-fenchel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:58:00.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-fenchel"
name: "Tom Fenchel"
slug: "tom-fenchel"
description: "Tom Michael Fenchel is a Danish marine ecologist and professor first at the University of Aarhus, later at the University of Copenhagen. He is a highly cited scientist and known for, among other things, Fenchel's Law."
tagline: "Danish botanist and marine biologist"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1940-03-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Tom Fenchel"
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    title: "Tom Fenchel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump