# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-tinsley
# Generated: 2026-09-01T14:10:07.660Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-tinsley"
name: "Brian Tinsley"
slug: "brian-tinsley"
description: "Brian Alfred Tinsley is a physicist who for more than 60 years has been actively researching atmospheric physics and space physics. He has been a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Dallas since 1976 and has served many national and international scientific organisations."
tagline: "New Zealand-born atmospheric scientist in the USA"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1937-04-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.39
  momentum:             4.90566037735849
  historical:           1.536177333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  49
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Tinsley"
    title: "Brian Tinsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4965488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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