# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-gold
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:04:02.265Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-gold"
name: "Thomas Gold"
slug: "thomas-gold"
description: "Thomas Gold was an Austrian-born astrophysicist, who also held British and American citizenship. He was a professor of astronomy at Cornell University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London). Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who in 1948 proposed the now mostly abandoned \"steady state\" hypothesis of the universe. Gold's work crossed boundaries of academic and scientific disciplines, into biophysics, astronomy, aerospace engineering, and geophysics."
tagline: "Austrian astrophysicist (1920-2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Thomas_Gold.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1920-05-22"
deathDate: "2004-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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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