# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-tolansky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:53:52.438Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-tolansky"
name: "Samuel Tolansky"
slug: "samuel-tolansky"
description: "Samuel Tolansky, born Turlausky, FRAS FRSA FInstP FRS, was a British physicist. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the Moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a principal investigator to the NASA lunar project known as the Apollo program."
tagline: "British physicist (1907–1973)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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birthDate: "1907-11-17"
deathDate: "1973-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Samuel Tolansky"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump