# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-guinan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:51:57.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-guinan"
name: "Edward Guinan"
slug: "edward-guinan"
description: "Edward F. Guinan is a professor in Villanova University's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He and two colleagues observed evidence of Neptune's ring system in 1968, which was later discovered by Voyager 2 in 1989. He was also involved in building Iran's first high-powered telescope in the 1970s. He has been, and continues to be, involved in various international astronomical collaborations, such as helping to organize teaching and development programs in North Korea."
tagline: "American scientist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.88
  momentum:             9
  historical:           5.470338666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Edward Guinan"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Guinan"
    title: "Edward Guinan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Guinan"
    title: "Edward Guinan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Guinan"
    title: "Edward Guinan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Guinan"
    title: "Edward Guinan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Guinan"
    title: "Edward Guinan"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump