# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-lincoln
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:02:20.847Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-lincoln"
name: "Don Lincoln"
slug: "don-lincoln"
description: "Don Lincoln is an American physicist, author, host of the YouTube channel Fermilab, and science communicator. He conducts research in particle physics at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and was an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, although he is no longer affiliated with the university. He received a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Rice University in 1994. In 1995, he was a co-discoverer of the top quark. He has co-authored hundreds of research papers, and more recently, was a member of the team that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Lincoln_lecturing.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1964"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm7458108"
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    url:       "https://drdonlincoln.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Don Lincoln"
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    title: "Don Lincoln"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lincoln"
    title: "Don Lincoln"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump