# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lodewijk-van-den-berg
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:39:38.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lodewijk-van-den-berg"
name: "Lodewijk van den Berg"
slug: "lodewijk-van-den-berg"
description: "Lodewijk van den Berg was a Dutch-born American chemical engineer. He studied crystal growth and flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a payload specialist."
tagline: "Chemical engineer and astronaut (1932–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lodewijk_van_den_Berg.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: "1932-03-24"
deathDate: "2022-10-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.88927466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump