# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olaf-hassel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:10:23.691Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olaf-hassel"
name: "Olaf Hassel"
slug: "olaf-hassel"
description: "Olaf Hassel was a Norwegian amateur astronomer. He was born in Øvre Sandsvær. He is known for his discoveries of the comet Jurlov-Achmarof-Hassel in April 1939 and the nova V446 Herculis on 7 March 1960. Hassel was born deaf."
tagline: "Norwegian amateur astronomer (1898-1972)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1898-05-12"
deathDate: "1972-08-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.42
  momentum:             6.666666666666666
  historical:           5.268106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Hassel"
    title: "Olaf Hassel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%81_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84"
    title: "أولاف هاسل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Hassel"
    title: "Olaf Hassel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Hassel"
    title: "Olaf Hassel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Hassel"
    title: "Olaf Hassel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaf_Hassel"
    title: "Olaf Hassel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7082952"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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