# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-kirshner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:24:11.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-kirshner"
name: "Robert Kirshner"
slug: "robert-kirshner"
description: "Robert P. Kirshner is an American astronomer, Chief Program Officer for Science for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Clowes Research Professor of Science at Harvard University. Kirshner has worked in several areas of astronomy including the physics of supernovae, supernova remnants, the large-scale structure of the cosmos, and the use of supernovae to measure the expansion of the universe."
tagline: "American astronomer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RobertKirshnerIMG_2728x.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1949-08-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump