# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heidi-jo-newberg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:32:46.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heidi-jo-newberg"
name: "Heidi Jo Newberg"
slug: "heidi-jo-newberg"
description: "Heidi Jo Newberg is an American astrophysicist known for her work in understanding the structure of our Milky Way galaxy. Among her team's findings are that the Milky Way is cannibalizing stars from smaller galaxies and that the Milky Way is larger and has more ripples than was previously understood. She is a founding participant in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE), and is a leader of the astrophysical MilkyWay@home volunteer computing project team. She is a professor in the Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, US, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society."
tagline: "American astrophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heidi_Jo_Newberg_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           36.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.136681333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "எய்தி யோ நியூபெர்கு"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هيدي جو نيوبيرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Jo_Newberg"
    title: "Heidi Jo Newberg"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Jo_Marvin"
    title: "Heidi Jo Marvin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Jo_Newberg"
    title: "Heidi Jo Newberg"
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    title: "Heidi Jo Newberg"
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  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Jo_Newberg"
    title: "Heidi Jo Newberg"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump