# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-n-payne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:56:24.280Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-n-payne"
name: "David N. Payne"
slug: "david-n-payne"
description: "David Neil Payne is a British professor of photonics who is director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton. He has made several contributions in areas of optical fibre communications over the last fifty years and his work has affected telecommunications and laser technology. Payne’s work spans diverse areas of photonics, from telecommunications and optical sensors to nanophotonics and optical materials, including the introduction of the first optical fibre drawing tower in a university."
tagline: "British physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-08-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             2.595870206489676
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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