# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-cornwell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:31:37.197Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-cornwell"
name: "John Cornwell"
slug: "john-cornwell"
description: "John Cornwell FRSL is a British journalist, author, and academic. Since 1990, he has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was also, until 2017, Founder and Director of the Rustat Conferences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2011. He was nominated for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for best UK memoir 2007 and shortlisted Specialist Journalist of the Year, British Press Awards 2006. He won the Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year Award for Hitler's Scientists, 2005; and received the Independent Television Authority-Tablet Award for contributions to religious journalism (1994). In 1982 he won the Gold Dagger Award Non-Fiction (1982) for Earth to Earth. He is best known for his investigative journalism; memoir; and his work in public understanding of science. In addition to his books on the relationship between science, ethics and the humanities, he has written widely on the Catholic Church and the modern papacy, often with much controversy."
tagline: "English writer and journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1940"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.942857142857141
  historical:           10.29877866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "John Cornwell (Autor)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cornwell_(writer)"
    title: "John Cornwell (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump