# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:52:00.293Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Charles Greeley Abbot was born May 31, 1872, and became an American astrophysicist whose career unfolded almost entirely within the Smithsonian Institution. He began as director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, then rose to Assistant Secretary, and finally served as the fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1928 until 1944. His research centered on the solar constant—the measure of how much energy the sun delivers to Earth—and that work pushed him from theory into invention: he patented the solar cooker, solar boiler, solar still, and other devices designed to harness the radiation he'd spent years quantifying. He died December 17, 1973, a month shy of his 102nd birthday.