# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/curtis-callan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:36:27.115Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/curtis-callan"
name: "Curtis Callan"
slug: "curtis-callan"
description: "Curtis Gove Callan Jr. is an American theoretical physicist and the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He has conducted research in gauge theory, string theory, instantons, black holes, strong interactions, and many other topics. He was awarded the Sakurai Prize in 2000 and the Dirac Medal in 2004."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CurtisCallan1986a.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1942-10-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             11
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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