# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/f-richard-stephenson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:56:38.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/f-richard-stephenson"
name: "F. Richard Stephenson"
slug: "f-richard-stephenson"
description: "F. Richard Stephenson is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Durham, in the Physics department and the East Asian Studies department. His research concentrates on historical aspects of astronomy, in particular analyzing ancient astronomical records to reconstruct the history of Earth's rotation. He has an asteroid named after him: 10979 Fristephenson."
tagline: "British researcher in historical astronomy"
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birthDate: "1941-04-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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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