# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-claude-merlin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:18:29.836Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-claude-merlin"
name: "Jean-Claude Merlin"
slug: "jean-claude-merlin"
description: "Jean-Claude Merlin is a French astronomer, founder-president of the Burgundy Astronomical Society and a discoverer of minor planets. He was laureate of the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Fondation de la Vocation in 1982 and received the Prix Georges Bidault de l'Isle of the Société astronomique de France in 1999."
tagline: "French astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JCMerlin_20171220.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1954-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5660377358490567
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جان كلود ميرلين"
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    title: "جان كلود ميرلين"
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    title: "Jean-Claude Merlin"
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    title: "Jean-Claude Merlin"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump