# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-l-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:41:57.883Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-l-bennett"
name: "Charles L. Bennett"
slug: "charles-l-bennett"
description: "Charles Leonard Bennett is an American observational astrophysicist. He is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, the Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a Gilman Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. He is the Principal Investigator of NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)."
tagline: "American astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles_L._Bennett.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1956-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump