# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-max-zimmerman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:58:23.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-max-zimmerman"
name: "Walter Max Zimmerman"
slug: "walter-max-zimmerman"
description: "Walter Max Zimmermann was a German botanist and systematist. Zimmermann’s notions of classifying life objectively based on phylogenetic methods and on evolutionarily important characters were foundational for modern phylogenetics. Though they were later implemented by Willi Hennig in his fundamental work on phylogenetic systematics, Zimmermann's contributions to this field have largely been overlooked. Zimmermann also made several significant developments in the field of plant systematics such as the discovery of the telome theory. The standard botanical author abbreviation W.Zimm. is applied to species he described."
tagline: "German botanist (1892-1980)"
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: "1892-05-09"
deathDate: "1980-06-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.774193548387096
  historical:           12.205976
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Вальтер Ціммерман"
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    title: "والتر ماكس زيمرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Max_Zimmerman"
    title: "Walter Max Zimmerman"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Zimmermann_(Botaniker)"
    title: "Walter Zimmermann (Botaniker)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Max_Zimmermann"
    title: "Walter Max Zimmermann"
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    title: "Walter Zimmermann"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Max_Zimmermann"
    title: "Walter Max Zimmermann"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Max_Zimmermann"
    title: "Walter Max Zimmermann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Walter Max Zimmermann"
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    title: "Циммерман, Вальтер"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Max_Zimmermann"
    title: "Walter Max Zimmermann"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump