# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mark-buchanan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:28:55.159Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mark-buchanan"
name: "Mark Buchanan"
slug: "mark-buchanan"
description: "Mark Buchanan is an American outreach physicist and author. He was formerly an editor with the international journal of science Nature, and the popular science magazine New Scientist. He has been a guest columnist for the New York Times, and currently writes a monthly column for the journal Nature Physics."
tagline: "American theoretical physicist and writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1961-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.210152
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  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mark.buchanan.pagesperso-orange.fr/"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مارك بوكانان"
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    title: "Mark Buchanan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Buchanan"
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    title: "مارک بیوکانان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mark Buchanan"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump