# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/archibald-howie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:12:24.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/archibald-howie"
name: "Archibald Howie"
slug: "archibald-howie"
description: "Archibald \"Archie\" Howie is a British physicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge, known for his pioneering work on the interpretation of transmission electron microscope images of crystals. Born in 1934, he attended Kirkcaldy High School and the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he subsequently took up a permanent post. He has been a fellow of Churchill College since its foundation, and was President of its Senior Combination Room (SCR) until 2010."
tagline: "British physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Archie_Howie_Cambridge_2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1934-03-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump