# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-kaminsky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:45:11.547Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-kaminsky"
name: "Walter Kaminsky"
slug: "walter-kaminsky"
description: "Walter Kaminsky was a German chemist who specialised in olefin polymerization and plastic recycling. He discovered the high activity of Group 4 metallocene/methylaluminoxane (MAO) mixtures as catalysts for olefin polymerization in 1980."
tagline: "German chemist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-05-07"
deathDate: "2024-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.72
  momentum:             1.461538461538462
  historical:           7.872030666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "والتر كامنسكي"
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    title: "والتر كامنسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaminsky_(Chemiker)"
    title: "Walter Kaminsky (Chemiker)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaminsky"
    title: "Walter Kaminsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "والتر کامینسکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaminsky"
    title: "Walter Kaminsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaminsky"
    title: "Walter Kaminsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kaminsky"
    title: "Walter Kaminsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump