# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-klemm
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:41:16.965Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-klemm"
name: "Wilhelm Klemm"
slug: "wilhelm-klemm"
description: "Wilhelm Karl Klemm was an inorganic and physical chemist. \nKlemm did extensive work on intermetallic compounds, rare earth metals, transition elements and compounds involving oxygen and fluorine. \nHe and Heinrich Bommer were the first to isolate elemental erbium (1934) and ytterbium (1936).\nKlemm refined Eduard Zintl's ideas about the structure of intermetallic compounds and their connections to develop the Zintl-Klemm concept."
tagline: "German chemist (1896–1985)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
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birthDate: "1896-01-05"
deathDate: "1985-10-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump