# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-guthe-jansky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:01:51.223Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-guthe-jansky"
name: "Karl Guthe Jansky"
slug: "karl-guthe-jansky"
description: "Karl Guthe Jansky was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius. An amateur astronomer, he is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy."
tagline: "American physicist and radio engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl_Jansky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1905-10-22"
deathDate: "1950-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump