# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-kittel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:10:33.106Z

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name: "Charles Kittel"
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description: "Charles Kittel was an American physicist. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1951 and was professor emeritus from 1978 until his death. He is known for co-introducing the Ruderman–Kittel–Kasuya–Yosida interaction models and for his famous textbook Introduction to Solid State Physics."
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birthDate: "1916-07-18"
deathDate: "2019-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump