# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gart-westerhout
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:34:20.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gart-westerhout"
name: "Gart Westerhout"
slug: "gart-westerhout"
description: "Gart Westerhout was a Dutch-American astronomer. Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established internationally as a radio astronomer in the Netherlands, specializing in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. He emigrated to the United States, became a naturalized citizen, and held a number of important scientific and management positions in academic and government institutions."
tagline: "Dutch astronomer (1927–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Westerhoutg2.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: "1927-06-15"
deathDate: "2012-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.037037037037037
  historical:           7.60468
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ґарт Вестергут"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gart_Westerhout"
    title: "Gart Westerhout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gart_Westerhout"
    title: "Gart Westerhout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gart_Westerhout"
    title: "Gart Westerhout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "گارت وسترهوت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gart_Westerhout"
    title: "Gart Westerhout"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gart_Westerhout_(astronoom)"
    title: "Gart Westerhout (astronoom)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D1%83%D1%82%2C_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Вестерхут, Гарт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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