# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-c-fabian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:31:57.114Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-c-fabian"
name: "Andrew C. Fabian"
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description: "Andrew Christopher Fabian is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He was Director of the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2018. He was a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge from 1982 to 2013, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge from 1997 to 2012. He served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010."
tagline: "British X-ray astronomer"
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birthDate: "1948-02-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump