# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gribbin
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:54:29.274Z

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name: "John Gribbin"
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description: "John R. Gribbin is a British science writer and astrophysicist. His subjects include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change and cosmology. He is a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. Best known for In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, he has also written biographies of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Buddy Holly. Robert Macfarlane calls him \"one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around.\""
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birthDate: "1946-03-19"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump