# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marc-kuchner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:40:38.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marc-kuchner"
name: "Marc Kuchner"
slug: "marc-kuchner"
description: "Marc Kuchner is an American astrophysicist, and the Citizen Science Officer at NASA Headquarters. He is known for his work on citizen science, and imaging of disks and exoplanets. Together with Wesley Traub, he invented the band-limited coronagraph, used on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), originally designed for the proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) telescope. He is also known for his novel supercomputer models of planet-disk interactions and for developing the ideas of ocean planets, carbon planets, and helium planets."
tagline: "American astronomer, researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-2387-5489"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/500482main_kuchner-226x285.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: "1972-08-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.672066666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kuchner"
    title: "Marc Kuchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%B1_(%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AB_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "مارك كوشنر (باحث من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kuchner"
    title: "Marc Kuchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA_%D0%9A%D1%8E%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Марк Кюхнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8E%D1%85%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA"
    title: "Кюхнер, Марк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Kuchner"
    title: "Marc Kuchner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2065300"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump