# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-shu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:04:00.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-shu"
name: "Frank Shu"
slug: "frank-shu"
description: "Frank Hsia-San Shu was a Chinese-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and author. He served as a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego. He is best known for proposing the density wave theory to explain the structure of spiral galaxies, and for describing a model of star formation, where a giant dense molecular cloud collapses to form a star."
tagline: "American astronomer (1943–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Hsia-San_Shu%2C_the_Fellow_of_Academia_Sinica.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-06-02"
deathDate: "2023-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Frank Shu"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump