# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-ball
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:03:51.950Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-ball"
name: "Philip Ball"
slug: "philip-ball"
description: "Philip Ball is a British science writer. For over twenty years he has been an editor of the journal Nature, for which he continues to write regularly."
tagline: "British science writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-10-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           64.8
  momentum:             7.036252613048741
  historical:           12.72210666666667
  currentAttention:     31.29657228017884
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 5990
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/philipcball"
    handle:    "philipcball"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://philipball.co.uk/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXB0yKE1BWYRGUJN-mvg_lw"
    handle:    "@philipball4720"
    followers: 5990
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "فيليب بال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippus_Ball"
    title: "Philippus Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BF"
    title: "Болл, Филип"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Ball"
    title: "Philip Ball"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%B2%E5%88%A9%E6%99%AE%C2%B7%E9%B2%8D%E5%B0%94"
    title: "菲利普·鲍尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908187"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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