# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-christopher-carrington
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:42:08.550Z

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name: "Richard Christopher Carrington"
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description: "Richard Christopher Carrington was an English astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun."
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birthDate: "1826-05-26"
deathDate: "1875-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump