# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-clifford-jewitt
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:47:08.348Z

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name: "David Clifford Jewitt"
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description: "David Clifford Jewitt is an astronomer who studies the Solar System, especially its minor bodies. He is based at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is a Member of the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, the Director of the Institute for Planets and Exoplanets, Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Astronomy in the Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences. He is best known for being the first person to discover a body beyond Pluto and Charon in the Kuiper belt."
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birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump