# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-maddox
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:03:24.336Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-maddox"
name: "John Maddox"
slug: "john-maddox"
description: "Sir John Royden Maddox, FRS was a Welsh theoretical chemist, physicist, and science writer. He was an editor of Nature for 22 years, from 1966 to 1973 and 1980 to 1995."
tagline: "Welsh chemist, physicist, journalist and editor (1925–2009)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1925-11-27"
deathDate: "2009-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump