# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-mandel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:29:12.608Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-mandel"
name: "Leonard Mandel"
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description: "Leonard Mandel was an American physicist who contributed to the development of theoretical and experimental modern optics and is widely considered one of the founding fathers of the field of quantum optics. With Emil Wolf he published the highly regarded book Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics."
tagline: "German physicist (1927–2001)"
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birthDate: "1927-05-09"
deathDate: "2001-02-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump