# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malcolm-longair
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:25:37.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malcolm-longair"
name: "Malcolm Longair"
slug: "malcolm-longair"
description: "Malcolm Sim Longair is a British physicist. From 1991 to 2008 he was the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Since 2016 he has been editor-in-chief of the Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society."
tagline: "British astronomer (1941-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Malcolm_Longair_(8750955675).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1941-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm2148621"
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    title: "Лонгейр, Малкольм"
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    title: "مالكولم لونجاير"
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    title: "Malcolm Longair"
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    title: "Malcolm Sim Longair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Longair"
    title: "Malcolm Longair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Longair"
    title: "Malcolm Longair"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Sim_Longair"
    title: "Malcolm Sim Longair"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump