# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-pillinger
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:55:38.362Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/colin-pillinger"
name: "Colin Pillinger"
slug: "colin-pillinger"
description: "Colin Trevor Pillinger, was an English planetary scientist. He was a founding member of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at The Open University in Milton Keynes; he was also the principal investigator for the British Beagle 2 Mars lander project, and worked on a group of Martian meteorites."
tagline: "Professor of Planetary science (1943-2014)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-05-09"
deathDate: "2014-05-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump