# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-silk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:33:22.567Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-silk"
name: "Joseph Silk"
slug: "joseph-silk"
description: "Joseph Ivor Silk is a British-American astrophysicist. He was the Savilian Chair of Astronomy at the University of Oxford from 1999 to September 2011."
tagline: "British-American astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1942-12-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.95874933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چوزيف سيلك"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Silk"
    title: "Joseph Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Silk"
    title: "Joseph Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Silk"
    title: "Joseph Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Силк, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Silk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джозеф Сілк"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump