# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-atkins
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:15:35.123Z

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name: "Peter Atkins"
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description: "Peter William Atkins is an English chemist and a Fellow of Lincoln College at the University of Oxford. He retired in 2007. He is a prolific writer of popular chemistry textbooks, including Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Quantum Mechanics. Atkins is also the author of a number of popular science books, including Atkins' Molecules, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science and On Being."
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birthDate: "1940-08-10"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump