# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-e-brownlee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:43:12.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-e-brownlee"
name: "Donald E. Brownlee"
slug: "donald-e-brownlee"
description: "Donald Eugene Brownlee is a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington at Seattle and the principal investigator for NASA's Stardust mission. In 2000, along with his co-author Peter Ward, he co-originated the term Rare Earth, in reference to the possible scarcity of life elsewhere in the universe. His primary research interests include astrobiology, comets, and cosmic dust. He was born in Las Vegas, Nevada."
tagline: "American astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1943-12-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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