# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-h-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:40:30.456Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-h-bennett"
name: "Charles H. Bennett"
slug: "charles-h-bennett"
description: "Charles Henry Bennett is an American physicist, information theorist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research. Bennett's recent work at IBM has concentrated on a re-examination of the physical basis of information, applying quantum physics to the problems surrounding information exchange. He has played a major role in elucidating the interconnections between physics and information, particularly in the realm of quantum computation, but also in cellular automata and reversible computing."
tagline: "American physicist, information theorist and IBM Research fellow"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Charles_Bennett_IBM_Fellow.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1943-04-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump