# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-j-borucki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:03:09.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-j-borucki"
name: "William J. Borucki"
slug: "william-j-borucki"
description: "William J. (Bill) Borucki is a space scientist who worked at the NASA Ames Research Center. Upon joining NASA in 1962, Borucki joined the group conducting research on the heat shield for Apollo program spacecraft. He later turned his attention to the optical efficiency of lightning strikes in the atmospheres of planets, investigating the propensity that these lightning strikes could create molecules that would later become the precursors for life. Subsequently, Borucki's attention turned to extrasolar planets and their detection, particularly through the transit method. In light of this work, Borucki was named the principal investigator for NASA's Kepler space telescope mission, launched on March 7, 2009 and dedicated to a transit-based search for habitable planets. In 2013, Borucki was awarded the United States National Academy of Sciences's Henry Draper Medal for his work with Kepler. In 2015 he received the Shaw Prize in Astronomy."
tagline: "American meteorologist, planetary scientist and physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Borucki_NASA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump