# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/j-richard-bond
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:34:53.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/j-richard-bond"
name: "J. Richard Bond"
slug: "j-richard-bond"
description: "John Richard Bond, also known as J. Richard Bond, is a Canadian astrophysicist and cosmologist.\nBond received his bachelor's degree in 1973 from the University of Toronto and his PhD in theoretical physics in 1979 from Caltech under the supervision of William A. Fowler. Beginning in 1985 he has been a professor at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and at the University of Toronto. He served 2 five-year terms (1996–2006) as CITA's director, and since 2002 he has been the director of the Cosmology and Gravity Program for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)."
tagline: "Canadian astrophysicist and cosmologist"
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country:
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birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump