# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-liller
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:01:27.196Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-liller"
name: "William Liller"
slug: "william-liller"
description: "William Liller was an American astronomer, known for his research on \"planetary nebulae, comets, asteroids, magnetic activity in cool stars, the optical identification of X-ray sources, and astro-archaeology.\""
tagline: "American astronomer (1927-2021)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-04-01"
deathDate: "2021-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.2135
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "威廉·利勒"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "William Liller"
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    title: "William Liller"
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    title: "William Liller"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Liller"
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    title: "Ուիլյամ Լիլեր"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Liller"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Liller"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump