# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-freedhoff
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:26:13.830Z

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name: "Helen Freedhoff"
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description: "Helen Sarah Freedhoff was a Canadian theoretical physicist who studied the interaction of light with atoms. She gained her doctorate at the University of Toronto in 1965 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College in London. Freedhoff was the first woman appointed as a physics professor at York University in Toronto, and is believed to have been the only woman professor of theoretical physics in Canada at the time."
tagline: "Canadian theoretical physicist (1940–2017)"
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gender: "female"
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  isoCode: "CA"
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birthDate: "1940-01-09"
deathDate: "2017-06-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump