# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andrew-pickering
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:25:44.714Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andrew-pickering"
name: "Andrew Pickering"
slug: "andrew-pickering"
description: "Andrew Pickering is a British sociologist, philosopher and historian of science at the University of Exeter. He was a professor of sociology and a director of science and technology studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign until 2007. He holds a doctorate in physics from the University of London, and a doctorate in Science Studies from the University of Edinburgh. He is known for his book Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics (1984).[a]"
tagline: "British academic (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Andrew_Pickering.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           5.013752
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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