# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marc-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:33:59.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marc-davis"
name: "Marc Davis"
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description: "Marc Davis is an American professor of astronomy and physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Davis received his bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, his PhD from Princeton University in 1973 and has been elected to both the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992). He taught for a year at Princeton, 1973–1974, then was on the astronomy faculty at Harvard University from 1975 to 1981. Since 1981, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Astronomy and Physics at the University of California at Berkeley."
tagline: "American astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-09-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Marc Davis (astronomer)"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Davis_(astrof%C3%ADsico)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump