# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shep-doeleman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:54:07.501Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shep-doeleman"
name: "Shep Doeleman"
slug: "shep-doeleman"
description: "Sheperd \"Shep\" S. Doeleman is an American astrophysicist. His research focuses on imaging supermassive black holes with sufficient resolution to directly observe the event horizon. He is a senior research fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Founding Director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project. He led the international team of researchers that produced the first directly observed image of a black hole."
tagline: "American astronomer"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1967-01-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://bhi.fas.harvard.edu/people/sheperd-doeleman"
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    title: "Шепърд Долман"
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    title: "Sheperd Doeleman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump