# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/verner-e-suomi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:29:31.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/verner-e-suomi"
name: "Verner E. Suomi"
slug: "verner-e-suomi"
description: "Verner Edward Suomi was a Finnish-American educator, inventor, and scientist. He is considered the father of satellite meteorology. He invented the Spin Scan Radiometer, which for many years was the instrument on the GOES weather satellites that generated the time sequences of cloud images seen on television weather shows. The Suomi NPP polar orbiting satellite, launched in 2011, was named in his honor."
tagline: "American meteorologist (1915–1995)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1915-12-06"
deathDate: "1995-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.143305333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "維爾納·索米"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_E._Suomi"
    title: "Verner E. Suomi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_E._Suomi"
    title: "Verner E. Suomi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_Suomi"
    title: "Verner Suomi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_Suomi"
    title: "Verner Suomi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_E._Suomi"
    title: "Verner E. Suomi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AA%E3%83%9F"
    title: "ヴェルナール・スオミ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_Suomi"
    title: "Verner Suomi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_E._Suomi"
    title: "Verner E. Suomi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verner_E._Suomi"
    title: "Verner E. Suomi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3270314"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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