# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/artur-ekert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:08:41.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/artur-ekert"
name: "Artur Ekert"
slug: "artur-ekert"
description: "Artur Konrad Ekert is a professor of quantum physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, professorial fellow in quantum physics and cryptography at Merton College, Oxford, Lee Kong Chian Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore and the founding director of the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT). His research interests extend over most aspects of information processing in quantum-mechanical systems, with a focus on quantum communication and quantum computation. He is best known as one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography."
tagline: "British physicist"
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birthDate: "1961-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump