# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lars-hernquist
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:16:30.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lars-hernquist"
name: "Lars Hernquist"
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description: "Lars Hernquist is a theoretical astrophysicist and Mallinckrodt Professor of Astrophysics at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. He is best known for his research on dynamical processes in cosmology and galaxy formation/galaxy evolution."
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birthDate: "1954-12-14"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump