# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hidetoshi-katori
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:51.548Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hidetoshi-katori"
name: "Hidetoshi Katori"
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description: "Hidetoshi Katori  is a Japanese physicist and professor at the University of Tokyo best known for having invented the magic wavelength technique for ultra precise optical lattice atomic clocks. Since 2011, Katori is also Chief Scientist at the Quantum Metrology Lab, RIKEN."
tagline: "Engineer in Japan"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hidetoshi_Katori_cropped_1_Hidetoshi_Katori_20150312.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1964-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             15
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump