# Timothy Ferris

> Timothy Ferris is an American science writer. He is best known for Coming of Age in the Milky Way (1988), a history of astronomy which won the Science Writing Award. He also wrote The Whole Shebang: A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report (1997), a popular overview of cosmology. In The Science of Liberty (2010), he argues that scientific thinking played a role in democracy. Ferris has produced three PBS documentaries: The Creation of the Universe (1985), Life Beyond Earth (1999), and Seeing in the Dark (2007). He was a producer of the Voyager Golden Record, a sample of the sights and sounds of Earth sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft.

*American science writer and author*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/timothy-ferris

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1944-08-24
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 45.4 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.1 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 9.0 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 70.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 80.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2745239/ (@nm2745239)
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.timothyferris.com/

## Sources
- [Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/artist/1928660)
- [تيموثي فيريس](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3)
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- [Timothy Ferris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Ferris)
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- [Timothy Ferris](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Ferris)
- [蒂莫西·费里斯](https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%92%82%E8%8E%AB%E8%A5%BF%C2%B7%E8%B4%B9%E9%87%8C%E6%96%AF)
- [Wikiquote](https://bn.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8)
- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Timothy_Ferris)
- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/06dabd47-cb22-445a-8e8e-06f039483e1f)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7807192)
- [Timothy Ferris](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1037217)

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