# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-r-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:58:39.452Z

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name: "David R. Smith"
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description: "David R. Smith is an American physicist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke University in North Carolina and visiting professor at Imperial College London. Smith's research focuses on electromagnetic metamaterials, or materials with a negative index of refraction."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump