# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phil-nicholson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:44:39.611Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phil-nicholson"
name: "Phil Nicholson"
slug: "phil-nicholson"
description: "Philip D. Nicholson is an Australian-born professor of astronomy at Cornell University in the Astronomy department specialising in Planetary Sciences. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Icarus between 1998 and 2018."
tagline: "Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University"
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: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.3626943005181347
  historical:           6.340533333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "菲爾·尼科爾森"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فيل نيكلسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Nicholson"
    title: "Phil Nicholson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Nicholson"
    title: "Philip D. Nicholson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Nicholson"
    title: "Philip D. Nicholson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_D._Nicholson"
    title: "Philip D. Nicholson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Філ Ніколсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7182225"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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