# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kent-ford
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:03:20.327Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kent-ford"
name: "Kent Ford"
slug: "kent-ford"
description: "William Kent Ford Jr. was an American astronomer involved with the discovery of dark matter. He worked with scientist Vera Rubin, who used his advanced spectrometer in her studies of space and matter. Using this spectrometer to analyze the Doppler shifts of galaxies as a function of distance from their centers, the pair was able to demonstrate that dark matter existed and was widespread. Ford received the 1985 James Craig Watson Medal for his work on image enhancement and galactic dynamics. Ford died on June 18, 2023, at the age of 92."
tagline: "American astronomer"
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: "1931-04-08"
deathDate: "2023-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.31
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.473182666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Ford"
    title: "Kent Ford"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "كينت فورد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Kent_Ford%2C_Jr."
    title: "W. Kent Ford, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4_(%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC)"
    title: "Кент Форд (астроном)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Ford_(astronomer)"
    title: "Kent Ford (astronomer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kent_Ford_mlaj%C5%A1i"
    title: "William Kent Ford mlajši"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6391723"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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