# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-asher-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:45:08.210Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-asher-johnson"
name: "John Asher Johnson"
slug: "john-asher-johnson"
description: "John Asher Johnson is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at Harvard. He is the first tenured African-American physical science professor in the history of the university. Johnson is well known for discovering three of the first known planets smaller than the Earth outside of the Solar System, including the first Mars-sized exoplanet."
tagline: "American astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_A._Johnson_astronomer.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.52
  momentum:             6.446280991735538
  historical:           6.340497333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/astrojohnjohn"
    handle:    "astrojohnjohn"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/johnjohn3141"
    handle:    "johnjohn3141"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "جون آشر جونسون"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Asher_Johnson"
    title: "John Asher Johnson"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Asher_Johnson"
    title: "John Asher Johnson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Johnson_(astronomer)"
    title: "John Johnson (astronomer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Johnson_(astr%C3%B3nomo)"
    title: "John Johnson (astrónomo)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Johnson_(astronome)"
    title: "John Johnson (astronome)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump