# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/timothy-ferris
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:16:20.839Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/timothy-ferris"
name: "Timothy Ferris"
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description: "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."
tagline: "American science writer and author"
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birthDate: "1944-08-24"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump