# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jainendra-k-jain
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:06:57.536Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jainendra-k-jain"
name: "Jainendra K. Jain"
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description: "Jainendra K. Jain is an Indian-American physicist and the Evan Pugh University Professor and the Eberly Chair in Physics at the Pennsylvania State University. He received the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society in 2002, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021, and was selected Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2024. He was the co-recipient of 2025 Wolf Prize in Physics along with James P. Eisenstein and Mordehai Heiblum. Jain is known for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems, most notably for postulating particles known as the composite fermions."
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birthDate: "1960"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump