# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/betty-louise-turtle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:05:25.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/betty-louise-turtle"
name: "Betty Louise Turtle"
slug: "betty-louise-turtle"
description: "Betty Louise Turtle was an Australian astronomer and physicist. In 1971, with her colleague Paul Murdin, she identified the powerful X-ray source Cygnus X-1 as the first clear candidate for a black hole."
tagline: "Australian astronomer and physicist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-05-20"
deathDate: "1990-09-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.003888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%98%D7%99_%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99%D7%96_%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%9C"
    title: "בטי לואיז טרטל"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Louise_Turtle"
    title: "Betty Louise Turtle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Webster"
    title: "Louise Webster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Louise_Turtle"
    title: "Betty Louise Turtle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Webster"
    title: "Louise Webster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Webster"
    title: "Louise Webster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Webster"
    title: "Louise Webster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Louise_Turtle"
    title: "Betty Louise Turtle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58085614"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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