# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-preskill
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:21:14.602Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/john-preskill"
name: "John Preskill"
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description: "John Phillip Preskill is an American theoretical physicist and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, where he is also the director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter."
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birthDate: "1953-01-19"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump