# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-roman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:14:19.839Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-roman"
name: "Nancy Roman"
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description: "Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and stellar motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing her as one of the \"visionary founders of the US civilian space program\"."
tagline: "American astronomer and principal in the Hubble Space Telescope project (1925-2018)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1925-05-16"
deathDate: "2018-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump