# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ewen-whitaker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:12:31.866Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ewen-whitaker"
name: "Ewen Whitaker"
slug: "ewen-whitaker"
description: "Ewen Adair Whitaker was a British-born astronomer known for his work in selenography and lunar cartography. Together with Gerard Kuiper, Whitaker founded the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona. He co-authored multiple moon atlases, and helped NASA to select a landing site for Apollo 12 and several Surveyor and Ranger missions."
tagline: "British astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ewen_A._Whitaker.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1922-06-22"
deathDate: "2016-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.539273333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "اوين ويتاكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اوين ويتاكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewen_Whitaker"
    title: "Ewen Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewen_Whitaker"
    title: "Ewen Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewen_Whitaker"
    title: "Ewen Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewen_Whitaker"
    title: "Ewen Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewen_Whitaker"
    title: "Ewen Whitaker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "იუენ უიტეკერი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%AE%D1%8D%D0%BD"
    title: "Уитакер, Юэн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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