# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allan-h-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-09-01T03:35:02.727Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/allan-h-macdonald"
name: "Allan H. MacDonald"
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description: "Allan H. MacDonald is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair Professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are centered on the electronic properties of electrons in metals and semiconductors. He is well known for his work on correlated many-electron states in low-dimensional systems. In 2020, he became one of the laureates of the Wolf Prize in Physics, for predicting the magic angle that turns twisted bilayer graphene into a superconductor."
tagline: "Canadian-American physicist"
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birthDate: "1951-12-01"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump