# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-nelson-q519124
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:07:41.403Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-nelson-q519124"
name: "George Nelson"
slug: "george-nelson-q519124"
description: "George Driver \"Pinky\" Nelson is an American physicist, astronomer, science educator, and retired NASA astronaut."
tagline: "American astronaut, astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nelson-p.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: "1950-07-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.92
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.29957066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Nelson (astronaut)"
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    title: "George Nelson"
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    title: "George Nelson"
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    title: "George Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Nelson"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "George Nelson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "乔治·尼尔森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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