# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/volker-heine
# Generated: 2026-09-01T14:10:27.129Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/volker-heine"
name: "Volker Heine"
slug: "volker-heine"
description: "Volker Heine is a German-born New Zealand and British physicist who is a Professor Emeritus at University of Cambridge. He is considered a pioneer of theoretical and computational studies of the electronic structure of solids and liquids and the determination of physical properties derived from it."
tagline: "New Zealand scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vhphoto2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Heine"
    title: "Volker Heine"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_Heine"
    title: "Volker Heine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1419397"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump