# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-stanley-hey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:22:26.039Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-stanley-hey"
name: "James Stanley Hey"
slug: "james-stanley-hey"
description: "James Stanley Hey was an English physicist and radio astronomer. With the targeted application of radar technology for astronomical research, he laid the basis for the development of radio astronomy. While working in Richmond Park during the Second World War, Hey discovered that the Sun radiates radio waves and localised for the first time an extragalactic radio source in the constellation Cygnus."
tagline: "English physicist and radio astronomer (1909–2000)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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birthDate: "1909-05-03"
deathDate: "2000-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump