# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-abel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:10:37.111Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-abel"
name: "Tom Abel"
slug: "tom-abel"
description: "Tom Abel is a German cosmologist who first simulated the collapse of a metal-free massive star that belongs to the first generation of stars in the Universe. This work was done in collaboration with Greg L. Bryan and Michael L. Norman and was published in Science magazine (2002, 295, 93). He received his Doctor of Philosophy from LMU Munich in 2000."
tagline: "American astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5
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  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tomabel.org"
sources:
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    title: "தோம் ஏபல்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توم أبيل (عالم فلك)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Abel (cosmologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Abel"
    title: "Tom Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Abel"
    title: "Tom Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump