# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-mckay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:18:34.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-mckay"
name: "Christopher McKay"
slug: "christopher-mckay"
description: "Christopher P. McKay is an American planetary scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, studying planetary atmospheres, astrobiology, and terraforming. McKay majored in physics at Florida Atlantic University, where he also studied mechanical engineering, graduating in 1975. He also received his PhD in astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado in 1982."
tagline: "American planetary scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Christopher_McKay_in_Antarctica%2C_2005.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.015012
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "克里斯托弗·麦凯"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McKay_(Astrophysiker)"
    title: "Chris McKay (Astrophysiker)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_McKay"
    title: "Christopher McKay"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump