# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anna-n-zytkow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:47:00.440Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anna-n-zytkow"
name: "Anna N. Żytkow"
slug: "anna-n-zytkow"
description: "Anna Nikola Żytkow is a Polish astrophysicist working at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge. Żytkow and Kip Thorne proposed a model for what is called the Thorne–Żytkow object, which is a star within another star. Żytkow in 2014 was part of the team led by Emily M. Levesque which discovered the first candidate for such an object."
tagline: "Polish astrophysicist"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.68160666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "安娜·祖特闊夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Anna N. Żytkow"
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    title: "Anna N. Żytkow"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_N._%C5%BBytkow"
    title: "Anna N. Żytkow"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Nikola_%C5%BBytkow"
    title: "Anna Nikola Żytkow"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_%C5%BBytkow"
    title: "Anna Żytkow"
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    title: "Anna N. Żytkow"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump