# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-lightman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:15:58.132Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-lightman"
name: "Alan Lightman"
slug: "alan-lightman"
description: "Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine."
tagline: "American physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1948-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://writing.mit.edu/people/faculty/homepage/lightman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump