# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-paul-wild
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:01:46.492Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-paul-wild"
name: "John Paul Wild"
slug: "john-paul-wild"
description: "John Paul Wild was a British-born Australian scientist. Following service in World War II as a radar officer in the Royal Navy, he became a radio astronomer in Australia for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, the fore-runner of the CSIRO. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph, near Narrabri, New South Wales. The Paul Wild Observatory at Culgoora is named after him."
tagline: "Australian radiophysicist (1923-2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Wild_by_GWR_King_Edward_I_locomotive_in_1985.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1923-05-17"
deathDate: "2008-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.941397333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Paul Wild (Australian scientist)"
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    title: "پل وایلد (دانشمند)"
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    title: "John Paul Wild"
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    title: "John Paul Wild"
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  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Wild"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump