# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wulff-dieter-heintz
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:56:47.068Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wulff-dieter-heintz"
name: "Wulff-Dieter Heintz"
slug: "wulff-dieter-heintz"
description: "Wulff-Dieter Heintz was a German astronomer who worked the latter part of his career in the United States. He was Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Swarthmore College. He specialised in the characterisation of binary stars using astrometry."
tagline: "German astronomer and chess teacher (1930-2006)"
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: "1930-06-03"
deathDate: "2006-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.9
  momentum:             19.03846153846154
  historical:           7.402628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wulff Heintz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "ولف ديتير هينتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulff-Dieter_Heintz"
    title: "Wulff-Dieter Heintz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulff-Dieter_Heintz"
    title: "Wulff-Dieter Heintz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulff-Dieter_Heintz"
    title: "Wulff-Dieter Heintz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulff-Dieter_Heintz"
    title: "Wulff-Dieter Heintz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%84"
    title: "ヴルフ・ディーター・ハインツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B6%88%ED%94%84%EB%94%94%ED%84%B0_%ED%95%98%EC%9D%B8%EC%B8%A0"
    title: "불프디터 하인츠"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2805661"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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