# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jane-luu
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:59:40.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jane-luu"
name: "Jane Luu"
slug: "jane-luu"
description: "Jane X. Luu is a Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems engineer. She was awarded the Kavli Prize for 2012 \"for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system\"."
tagline: "Vietnamese American astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jane_Luu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           20.78427333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jane Luu"
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    title: "Jane Luu"
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    title: "Jane Luu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jane Luu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ג'יין לו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジェーン・ルー"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Luu"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Luu"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump