# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-susskind
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:28:52.029Z

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description: "Leonard Susskind is an American theoretical physicist, professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests are string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump