# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wendy-freedman
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:35:39.490Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/wendy-freedman"
name: "Wendy Freedman"
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description: "Wendy Laurel Freedman is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile. She is now the John & Marion Sullivan University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago. Her principal research interests are in observational cosmology, focusing on measuring both the current and past expansion rates of the universe, and on understanding if there is missing physics in the standard cosmological model."
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birthDate: "1957-07-17"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump