# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catherine-heymans
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:41:32.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catherine-heymans"
name: "Catherine Heymans"
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description: "Catherine Elizabeth Heymans is a British astrophysicist, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and a professor at the University of Edinburgh based at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh."
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birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump