# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-l-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:39:26.136Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-l-wright"
name: "Edward L. Wright"
slug: "edward-l-wright"
description: "Edward L. (Ned) Wright is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist. He has worked on space missions including the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) projects."
tagline: "American astrophysicist"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-08-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.33
  momentum:             1.206896551724138
  historical:           6.338013333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://astro.ucla.edu/~wright/intro.html"
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    title: "எட்வர்ட் எல். ரைட்"
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    title: "إدوارد إل. رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادوارد ال. رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward L. Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادوارد ال رایت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward L. Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Wright"
    title: "Ned Wright"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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