# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-franklin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:04:42.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-franklin"
name: "Kenneth Franklin"
slug: "kenneth-franklin"
description: "Kenneth Linn Franklin was an American astronomer and educator. Franklin was the chief scientist at the Hayden Planetarium from 1956 to 1984 and was co-credited with discovering radio waves originating on Jupiter, the first detection of signals from another planet. He was often a local and national media figure including during Apollo 11, the first human mission to the moon, when Franklin was an on-camera astronomy expert for NBC."
tagline: "American astronomer (1923–2007)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenneth_L._Franklin.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: "1923-03-25"
deathDate: "2007-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.52
  momentum:             17.4
  historical:           5.672246666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Franklin"
    title: "Kenneth Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "كينيث فرانكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Franklin"
    title: "Kenneth Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Linn_Franklin"
    title: "Kenneth Linn Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Franklin"
    title: "Kenneth Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Franklin"
    title: "Kenneth Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2745974"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump