# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-loss
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:03:35.438Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-loss"
name: "Daniel Loss"
slug: "daniel-loss"
description: "Daniel Loss is a Swiss theoretical physicist and a professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, University of Basel and RIKEN. With David P. DiVincenzo, he proposed the Loss-DiVincenzo quantum computer in 1997, which would use electron spins in quantum dots as qubits."
tagline: "Swiss physicist"
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country:
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  isoCode: "CH"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1958-02-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump