# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-n-proctor
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:04:50.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-n-proctor"
name: "Robert N. Proctor"
slug: "robert-n-proctor"
description: "Robert Neel Proctor is an American historian of science and Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, where he is also Professor by courtesy of Pulmonary Medicine. While a professor of the history of science at Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry."
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           10.28959866666667
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump