# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-kalas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:45:05.391Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-kalas"
name: "Paul Kalas"
slug: "paul-kalas"
description: "Paul Kalas is a Greek American astronomer known for his discoveries of debris disks around stars. Kalas led a team of scientists to obtain the first visible-light images of an extrasolar planet with orbital motion around the star Fomalhaut, at a distance of 25 light years from Earth. The planet is referred to as Fomalhaut b."
tagline: "American astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Kalas_in_2015.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1967-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.671166666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/paul_kalas/"
    handle:    "paul_kalas"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~kalas/"
sources:
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    title: "保羅·卡拉斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بول كلس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%B3"
    title: "بول كلس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kalas"
    title: "Paul Kalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A0%CE%BF%CE%BB_%CE%9A%CE%AC%CE%BB%CE%B1%CF%82"
    title: "Πολ Κάλας"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kalas"
    title: "Paul Kalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kalas"
    title: "Paul Kalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Калас, Пол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kalas"
    title: "Paul Kalas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3131410"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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