# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-g-w-manning
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:14:34.343Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-g-w-manning"
name: "Brian G. W. Manning"
slug: "brian-g-w-manning"
description: "Brian George William Manning was an English astronomer who discovered 19 minor planets. He was born in 1926 in Birmingham. He constructed his first mirror from a piece of glass that a World War II bomb blew out of the roof of the factory where his father worked. He began as an engineering draughtsman but later became a metrologist at the University of Birmingham. In the late 1950s, he constructed an interference-controlled ruling machine in a home workshop, which was able to rule high-quality 3 by 2 inch gratings. In 1990, he received the H. E. Dall prize of the BAA."
tagline: "British astronomer (1926–2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1926-05-14"
deathDate: "2011-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump