# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gordon-pettengill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:05:45.649Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gordon-pettengill"
name: "Gordon Pettengill"
slug: "gordon-pettengill"
description: "Gordon Hemenway Pettengill was an American radio astronomer and planetary physicist. He was one of the first to take radar from its original military application to its use as a tool for astronomy. He was professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
tagline: "American radio astronomer and planetary physicist (1926-2021)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1926-02-10"
deathDate: "2021-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "ഗോർഡൺ പീറ്റെൻഗിൽ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump