# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/caroline-furness
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:00:33.266Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/caroline-furness"
name: "Caroline Furness"
slug: "caroline-furness"
description: "Caroline Ellen Furness was an American astronomer who taught at Vassar College in the early twentieth century. She studied under Mary Watson Whitney at Vassar and was the first woman to earn a PhD in astronomy from Columbia University."
tagline: "American astronomer (1869 – 1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Caroline_Ellen_Furness_(1918).png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1869-06-24"
deathDate: "1936-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump