# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-axford
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:21:35.119Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-axford"
name: "Ian Axford"
slug: "ian-axford"
description: "Sir William Ian Axford was a New Zealand space scientist who was director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy from 1974 to 1990. Axford's research was focused on the interaction of the Sun with the magnetic field of Earth (magnetosphere) or the interstellar medium (heliosphere)."
tagline: "New Zealand space scientist (1933-2010)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Ian_W._Axford.webp/330px-Ian_W._Axford.webp.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1933-01-02"
deathDate: "2010-03-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470014666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Axford"
    title: "Ian Axford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "ايان اكسفورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Axford"
    title: "Ian Axford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Axford"
    title: "Ian Axford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Axford"
    title: "Ian Axford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Axford"
    title: "Ian Axford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130766"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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