# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-boles
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:52:49.315Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-boles"
name: "Tom Boles"
slug: "tom-boles"
description: "Thomas Boles is a Scottish amateur astronomer, discoverer of astronomical objects, author, broadcaster and former communications and computer engineer, who observes from his private \"Coddenham Observatory\" in Coddenham, Suffolk, United Kingdom. He is known for having discovered a record number of supernovae. The main-belt asteroid 7648 Tomboles is named in his honor."
tagline: "British amateur astronomer (1944-)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1944"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.246753246753246
  historical:           5.470338666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Tom Boles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "توم بولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "توم بولز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Boles"
    title: "Tom Boles"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Boles"
    title: "Tom Boles"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Boles"
    title: "Tom Boles"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3992445"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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