# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kiichiro-furukawa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:12:42.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kiichiro-furukawa"
name: "Kiichirō Furukawa"
slug: "kiichiro-furukawa"
description: "Kiichirō Furukawa  was a Japanese astronomer and discoverer of minor planets at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. Furukawa was also associated with Nagoya University Department of Astrophysics."
tagline: "Japanese astronomer (1929-2016)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1929-07-22"
deathDate: "2016-06-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.47
  momentum:             0.3448275862068965
  historical:           15.07314666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiichir%C5%8D_Furukawa"
    title: "Kiichirō Furukawa"
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    title: "Kiichirō Furukawa"
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    title: "Կիիտիրո Ֆուրուկավա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "古川麒一郎"
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    title: "후루카와 기이치로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kiichiro Hurukawa"
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    title: "Kiichirō Furukawa"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump