# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walther-kossel
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:43:54.668Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walther-kossel"
name: "Walther Kossel"
slug: "walther-kossel"
description: "Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel was a German theoretical physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond, the Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, and the Kossel–Stranski model for crystal growth."
tagline: "German physicist (1888-1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kossel%2CWalther_1928.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1888-01-04"
deathDate: "1956-05-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump