# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/amy-barger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:12:37.039Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/amy-barger"
name: "Amy Barger"
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description: "Amy J. Barger is an American astronomer and Henrietta Leavitt Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is considered a pioneer in combining data from multiple telescopes to monitor multiple wavelengths and in discovering distant galaxies and supermassive black holes, which are outside of the visible spectrum. Barger is an active member of the International Astronomical Union."
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birthDate: "1971-01-18"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump