# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sidney-c-wolff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:28:50.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sidney-c-wolff"
name: "Sidney C. Wolff"
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description: "Sidney Carne Wolff is an American astrophysicist, researcher, public educator, and author. She is the first woman in the United States to head a major observatory, and she provided significant contributions to the construction of six telescopes. Wolff served as Director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). She is a member of the International Astronomical Union's Division G: Stars and Stellar Physics."
tagline: "American astrophysicist (b.1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sidney_Wolff%2C_former_NOAO_Director_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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birthDate: "1941-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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    title: "سيدني س. وولف"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump