# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-jackson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:33:02.568Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-jackson"
name: "Robert Jackson"
slug: "robert-jackson"
description: "Robert Earl Jackson is a scientist, who, with Sandra Faber, in 1976 discovered the Faber–Jackson relation between the luminosity of an elliptical galaxy and the velocity dispersion in its center."
tagline: "American astronomer"
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: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.668934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jackson_(astronomer)"
    title: "Robert Jackson (astronomer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%83)"
    title: "روبرت جاكسون (عالم فلك)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Earl_Jackson"
    title: "Robert Earl Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BD%97%E4%BC%AF%E7%89%B9%C2%B7%E6%9D%B0%E5%85%8B%E9%80%8A_(%E5%A4%A9%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "罗伯特·杰克逊 (天文学家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Earl_Jackson"
    title: "Robert Earl Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Earl_Jackson"
    title: "Robert Earl Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433930"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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