# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfram-saenger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:37:33.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfram-saenger"
name: "Wolfram Saenger"
slug: "wolfram-saenger"
description: "Wolfram Saenger was a German biochemist and protein biochemist known for his pioneering contributions to nucleic acid crystallography and structural biology. Over a scientific career spanning more than four decades, he worked at Harvard University (Harvard Medical School, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, and the Free University of Berlin, where he led the Institute for Crystallography until his retirement in 2011."
tagline: "German biochemist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-04-23"
deathDate: "2026-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.8
  momentum:             3.6
  historical:           6.137329333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wolfram Saenger"
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    title: "ولفرام ساينجر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Saenger"
    title: "Wolfram Saenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Saenger"
    title: "Wolfram Saenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ولفرام سانگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Saenger"
    title: "Wolfram Saenger"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "وولفرام سینگر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump