# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-woolfson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:39:41.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-woolfson"
name: "Michael Woolfson"
slug: "michael-woolfson"
description: "Michael Mark Woolfson was a British physicist and planetary scientist. His research interests were in the fields of x-ray crystallography, biophysics, colour vision and the formation of stars and planets."
tagline: "British physicist (1927–2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1927-01-09"
deathDate: "2019-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Michael Mark Woolfson"
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    title: "Michael Woolfson"
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    title: "Michael Woolfson"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Woolfson"
    title: "Michael Woolfson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump