# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nathaniel-c-comfort
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:44:48.302Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nathaniel-c-comfort"
name: "Nathaniel C. Comfort"
slug: "nathaniel-c-comfort"
description: "Nathaniel Charles Comfort is an American historian specializing in the history of biology. He is an associate professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. In 2015, he was appointed the third Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center. He also serves on the advisory council of METI."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nathaniel_Comfort_at_the_Kluge_Center.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             4.390243902439023
  historical:           3.074226666666667
  currentAttention:     24.39024390243901
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "ناثانيل س. كومفورت"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations