# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jerry-r-ehman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:34:15.750Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jerry-r-ehman"
name: "Jerry R. Ehman"
slug: "jerry-r-ehman"
description: "The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The signal appeared to come from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius and bore expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin."
tagline: "American astronomer and astrophysicist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Wow_signal.jpg/330px-Wow_signal.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.57
  momentum:             0.08450704225352113
  historical:           7.679554666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_R._Ehman"
    title: "Jerry R. Ehman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Ehman"
    title: "Jerry Ehman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_R._Ehman"
    title: "Jerry R. Ehman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_R._Ehman"
    title: "Jerry R. Ehman"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_R._Ehman"
    title: "Jerry R. Ehman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_R._Ehman"
    title: "Jerry R. Ehman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_R._Ehman"
    title: "Jerry R. Ehman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Ehman"
    title: "Jerry Ehman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1346619"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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