# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-moffat
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:32:46.835Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-moffat"
name: "John Moffat"
slug: "john-moffat"
description: "John W. Moffat is a Danish-born Canadian physicist. He is currently professor emeritus of physics at the University of Toronto and is also an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo and a resident affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics."
tagline: "British-Canadian physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Moffat_web.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1932-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump