# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-t-kowal
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:32:03.097Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-t-kowal"
name: "Charles T. Kowal"
slug: "charles-t-kowal"
description: "Charles Thomas Kowal was an American astronomer known for his observations and discoveries in the Solar System. As a staff astronomer at Caltech's Mount Wilson and Palomar Mountain observatories between 1961 and 1984, he found 2060 Chiron, the second-largest centaur, discovered two moons of the planet Jupiter, and discovered or co-discovered a number of asteroids, comets and supernovae. He was awarded the James Craig Watson Medal for his contributions to astronomy in 1979."
tagline: "American astronomer (1940-2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Charles_T._Kowal.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1940-11-08"
deathDate: "2011-11-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump