# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-fortey
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:24:23.599Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-fortey"
name: "Richard Fortey"
slug: "richard-fortey"
description: "Richard Alan Fortey was a British palaeontologist, natural historian, writer and television presenter, who served as president of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007. As a paleontologist, he specialised in trilobites and other extinct arthropods, as well as the life and paleogeography of the Paleozoic era, particularly the Ordovician. He wrote popular science books, notably Life: An Unauthorised Biography (1998) and Earth: An Intimate History (2005). Among other honors, he won the Lewis Thomas Prize and the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Award. Steven Brusatte said \"Whenever I write, I try to channel the wit, wisdom, and warmth of Richard Fortey.”"
tagline: "British paleontologist (1946 – 2025)"
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birthDate: "1946-02-15"
deathDate: "2025-03-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump