# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-albert-hiltner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:07:48.147Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-albert-hiltner"
name: "William Albert Hiltner"
slug: "william-albert-hiltner"
description: "William Albert Hiltner was an American astronomer, noted for his work leading up to the discovery of interstellar polarization. He was an early practitioner of precision stellar photometry, and a pioneering observer of the optical counterparts of celestial x-ray sources."
tagline: "American astronomer (1914–1991)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_A._Hiltner%2C_September_1970.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-08-27"
deathDate: "1991-09-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.668322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Albert_Hiltner"
    title: "W. Albert Hiltner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "وليام البرت هيلتنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Albert_Hiltner"
    title: "William Albert Hiltner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Вільям Альберт Гілтнер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hiltner"
    title: "William Hiltner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC_%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Хилтнер, Уильям Альберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48864"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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