# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gordon-l-kane
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:42:18.572Z

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name: "Gordon L. Kane"
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description: "Gordon Leon Kane is Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan and director emeritus at the Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics (LCTP), a leading center for the advancement of theoretical physics. He was director of the LCTP from 2005 to 2011 and Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics from 2002 - 2011. He received the Lilienfeld Prize from the American Physical Society in 2012, and the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics in 2017."
tagline: "American physicist"
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birthDate: "1937-01-19"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump