# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustav-andreas-tammann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:24:40.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustav-andreas-tammann"
name: "Gustav Andreas Tammann"
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description: "Gustav Andreas Tammann was a Swiss astronomer and academic. He served as director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Basel; as a member of the European Space Agency Space Telescope Advisory Team, and as Member of Council of the European Southern Observatory. His research interests included supernovae and the extragalactic distance scale. Tammann was a former President of the International Astronomical Union Commission on Galaxies."
tagline: "Swiss astonomer (1932-2019)"
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birthDate: "1932-07-24"
deathDate: "2019-01-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump