# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sidney-dean-townley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:17:49.244Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sidney-dean-townley"
name: "Sidney Dean Townley"
slug: "sidney-dean-townley"
description: "Sidney Dean Townley was an American astronomer and geodeticist. He was a professor at Stanford University from 1911 until 1932. Among many other posts, Townley served as an instructor of astronomy at the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley he was also the president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1916. Throughout the course of his career he published around 100 academic papers and edited many more, he was recognized for his excellent editorial skills."
tagline: "American astronomer, professor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sidney_Dean_Townley_ca._1918.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1867-04-10"
deathDate: "1946-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.135025333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sidney Dean Townley"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Dean_Townley"
    title: "Sidney Dean Townley"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Dean_Townley"
    title: "Sidney Dean Townley"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Dean_Townley"
    title: "Sidney Dean Townley"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7509028"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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