# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/toru-kobayashi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:29:27.185Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/toru-kobayashi"
name: "Toru Kobayashi"
slug: "toru-kobayashi"
description: "Tōru Kobayashi  is/was a Japanese astronomer."
tagline: "Japanese astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.52
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.668430666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Kobayashi"
    title: "Toru Kobayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A"
    title: "تورو كوباياشي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Kobayashi"
    title: "Toru Kobayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Kobayashi"
    title: "Toru Kobayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dru_Kobayashi"
    title: "Tōru Kobayashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%9E%97%E5%BE%B9"
    title: "小林徹"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3547081"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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