# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/federico-capasso
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:43:11.266Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/federico-capasso"
name: "Federico Capasso"
slug: "federico-capasso"
description: "Federico Capasso is an Italian-American applied physicist and is one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University."
tagline: "Italian applied physicist (1949-)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Premio_Balzan_2016_-_Federico_Capasso.jpg/330px-Premio_Balzan_2016_-_Federico_Capasso.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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birthDate: "1949"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             2.64
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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