# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mercedes-richards
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:37:45.301Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mercedes-richards"
name: "Mercedes Richards"
slug: "mercedes-richards"
description: "Mercedes Tharam Richards, née Davis, was a Jamaican astronomy and astrophysics professor. Her investigation focused on computational astrophysics, stellar astrophysics and exoplanets and brown dwarfs, and the physical dynamics of interacting binary stars systems. However, her pioneering research in the tomography of interacting binary star systems and cataclysmic variable stars to predict magnetic activity and simulate gas flow is her most known work."
tagline: "Jamaican astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mercedes_Richards_Watercolor_for_Wiki_Unseen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1955-05-14"
deathDate: "2016-02-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Mercedes Richards"
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    title: "مرسيدس ريتشاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mercedes Richards"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Richards"
    title: "Mercedes Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Richards"
    title: "Mercedes Richards"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_Richards"
    title: "Mercedes Richards"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AF%D8%B3_%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B2"
    title: "مرسدس ریچاردز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump