# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-kistler
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:39:30.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-kistler"
name: "Walter Kistler"
slug: "walter-kistler"
description: "Walter P. Kistler was a physicist, inventor, and philanthropist, born in Biel, Switzerland. Kistler was a life member of the Swiss Physical Society and a member of AIAA and ISA, which presented him the Life Achievement Award in 2000. He held patents on more than 50 inventions in the scientific and industrial instrumentation fields, and had published a number of papers in scientific and trade journals. He was a major donor to a eugenics research organization, the Pioneer Fund."
tagline: "Swiss physicist (1918-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Kistler.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918"
deathDate: "2015-11-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.672966666666666
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump