# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-j-stevenson
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:04:16.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-j-stevenson"
name: "David J. Stevenson"
slug: "david-j-stevenson"
description: "David John Stevenson is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter. He is well known for applying fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics to understand the internal structure and evolution of planets and moons."
tagline: "New Zealand planetary scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_J._Stevenson.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-09-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           8.739885333333334
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "David J. Stevenson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David J. Stevenson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David J. Stevenson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump