# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-soon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:30:19.155Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-soon"
name: "Willie Soon"
slug: "willie-soon"
description: "Willie Wei-Hock Soon is a Malaysian-American astrophysicist and aerospace engineer who was long employed as a part-time externally funded researcher at the Solar and Stellar Physics (SSP) Division of the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics."
tagline: "American astronomer and climate change denier"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.31
  momentum:             0.1904761904761905
  historical:           5.697482666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Willie Soon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ویلی سون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Soon"
    title: "Willie Soon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Soon"
    title: "Willie Soon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Soon"
    title: "Willie Soon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Soon"
    title: "Willie Soon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8021828"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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