# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-golay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:41:23.058Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcel-golay"
name: "Marcel Golay"
slug: "marcel-golay"
description: "Marcel Golay was a Swiss astronomer, professor at Geneva University and the eighth director of the Geneva Observatory from 1956 to 1992. Golay was a member of the International Astronomical Union and president of several of its commissions including \"Stellar Classification\" and \"Astronomical Photometry and Polarimetry\". In 1991, University of Basel awarded him an honorary professorship. Asteroid 3329 Golay is named after him."
tagline: "Swiss astronomer (1927-2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marcel_Golay_(Swiss_astronomer).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Switzerland"
  isoCode: "CH"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-09-06"
deathDate: "2015-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           4.802088
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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sources:
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    title: "مارسيل جولاى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Golay_(Astronom)"
    title: "Marcel Golay (Astronom)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Golay_(astronomer)"
    title: "Marcel Golay (astronomer)"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Golay_(astronome)"
    title: "Marcel Golay (astronome)"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%93%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5_(%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC)"
    title: "Марсель Голе (астроном)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump