# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patricia-fara
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:44:11.111Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patricia-fara"
name: "Patricia Fara"
slug: "patricia-fara"
description: "Patricia Fara is a college lecturer in the history of science at Clare College, Cambridge. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford and did her PhD at the University of London. She is a former Fellow of Darwin College and is an Emerita Fellow of Clare College, where she was previously Director of Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. Fara was also a College Teaching Officer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. From 2016 to 2018, Fara was President of the British Society for the History of Science. In 2016, she became President of the Antiquarian Horological Society. Fara is author of numerous popular books on the history of science and has been a guest on BBC Radio 4's science and history discussion series In Our Time."
tagline: "British historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patricia_Fara.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1948-04-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.478870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/about/people/master-and-fellowship/emeritus-fellows/patricia-fara"
sources:
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    title: "Patricia Fara"
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    title: "Patrisia Fara"
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    title: "Patricia Fara"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7145573"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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