# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-friedman
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:11:19.705Z

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name: "Herbert Friedman"
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description: "Herbert Friedman was an American physicist and astronomer who did research in X-ray astronomy. During his career Friedman published hundreds of scientific papers. One such example is \"Ultraviolet and X Rays from the Sun\". Friedman worked at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for the entirety of his professional career, from 1940-1980. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1960. He received the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1964. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.\nIn 1987 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics “for pioneering investigations in solar X-rays”."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump