# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-chapline-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:10:09.436Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-chapline-jr"
name: "George Chapline, Jr."
slug: "george-chapline-jr"
description: "George Frederick Chapline Jr. is an American theoretical physicist, based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His most recent interests have mainly been in quantum information theory, condensed matter, and quantum gravity. In 2003 he received the Computing Anticipatory Systems award for a new interpretation of quantum mechanics based on the similarity of quantum mechanics and Helmholtz machines. He was awarded the E. O. Lawrence Award in 1982 by the United States Department of Energy for leading the team that first demonstrated a working X-ray laser."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Chapline_Jr.%2C_1963_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1942-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             9.546165884194053
  historical:           4.404428
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  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump