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Fran Scott

Science presenter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Fran Scott is a science presenter best known for her work on CBBC's Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom. Scott, who has a MSc in Neuroscience, is the Clothworkers' Science Content Producer at the Royal Institution.

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“Fran Scott” enters the record as science presenter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fran, Scott and Science can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fran Scott” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.