# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-impey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:36:08.829Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-impey"
name: "Chris Impey"
slug: "chris-impey"
description: "Christopher David Impey is a British astronomer, educator, and author. He has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona since 1986. Impey has done research on observational cosmology, in particular low surface brightness galaxies, the intergalactic medium, and surveys of active galaxies and quasars. As an educator, he has pioneered the use of instructional technology for teaching science to undergraduate non-science majors. He has written many technical articles and a series of popular science books including The Living Cosmos, How It Began, How It Ends: From You to the Universe, Dreams of Other Worlds, and Humble Before the Void. He served as Vice-President of the American Astronomical Society, he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He serves on the Advisory Council of METI."
tagline: "British astronomer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.34
  momentum:             18.42995169082126
  historical:           7.010008
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ImpeyChris"
    handle:    "ImpeyChris"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://chrisimpey-astronomy.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كريس إمبي"
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    title: "ক্রিস ইমপেই"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Impey"
    title: "Chris Impey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Impey"
    title: "Chris Impey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Impey"
    title: "Chris Impey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%86%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%96"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump