# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mildred-shapley-matthews
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:49:19.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mildred-shapley-matthews"
name: "Mildred Shapley Matthews"
slug: "mildred-shapley-matthews"
description: "Mildred Shapley Matthews was a book editor and writer known for astronomy books. She was the daughter of astronomers Harlow Shapley and Martha Betz Shapley; her father named the asteroid 878 Mildred for her."
tagline: "Book editor and writer known for astronomy books"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1915-02-15"
deathDate: "2016-02-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.11
  momentum:             15.46511627906977
  historical:           3.069906666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  53
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Shapley_Matthews"
    title: "Mildred Shapley Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Shapley_Matthews"
    title: "Mildred Shapley Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Shapley_Matthews"
    title: "Mildred Shapley Matthews"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21605273"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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