# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-quigg
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:53:16.639Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-quigg"
name: "Chris Quigg"
slug: "chris-quigg"
description: "Chris Quigg is an American theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He graduated from Yale University in 1966 and received his Ph.D. in 1970 under the tutelage of J. D. Jackson at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been an associate professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, and was head of the Theoretical Physics Department at Fermilab from 1977 to 1987."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr_Chris_Quigg_FNAL_2013-04-12.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1944-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             18.33333333333333
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Chris Quigg"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump