# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/albert-whitford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:04:03.338Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/albert-whitford"
name: "Albert Whitford"
slug: "albert-whitford"
description: "Albert Edward Whitford was an American physicist and astronomer. He served as director of the Washburn Observatory of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Lick Observatory."
tagline: "American astronomer (1905–2002)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1905-10-22"
deathDate: "2002-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.75
  historical:           8.270338666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Albert Edward Whitford"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Whitford"
    title: "Albert Whitford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Whitford_(astronomer)"
    title: "Albert Whitford (astronomer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Whitford"
    title: "Albert Whitford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Whitford"
    title: "Albert Whitford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Edward_Whitford"
    title: "Albert Edward Whitford"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "アルバート・ホィットフォード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Whitford"
    title: "Albert Whitford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Whitford"
    title: "Albert Whitford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1703286"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump