# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katherine-freese
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:28:40.466Z

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name: "Katherine Freese"
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description: "Katherine Freese is a theoretical astrophysicist. She is currently a professor and Director of the Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics. She is known for her work in theoretical cosmology at the interface of particle physics and astrophysics."
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birthDate: "1957-02-08"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump