# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-monroe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:18:58.784Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-monroe"
name: "Christopher Monroe"
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description: "Christopher Roy Monroe is an American physicist and engineer in the areas of atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum information science, especially quantum computing. He directs one of the leading research and development efforts in ion trap quantum computing. Monroe is the Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at Duke University and was College Park Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute and Joint Center for Quantum Computer Science until 2020 when he moved to Duke. He is also co-founder of IonQ, Inc."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Monroe_in_Lab.jpg?width=1200"
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birthDate: "1965-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump