# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-j-dick
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:00:46.865Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-j-dick"
name: "Steven J. Dick"
slug: "steven-j-dick"
description: "Steven J. Dick is an American astronomer, author, and historian of science most noted for his work in the field of astrobiology. Dick served as the chief historian for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 2003 to 2009 and as the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology from 2013 to 2014. Before that, he was an astronomer and historian of science at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, from 1979 to 2003."
tagline: "American astronomer, science historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steven_j._dick.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-10-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.07
  momentum:             13.83838383838384
  historical:           4.80756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ستيفن ديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_J._Dick"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_J._Dick"
    title: "Steven J. Dick"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump