# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leroy-chang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:54.413Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leroy-chang"
name: "Leroy Chang"
slug: "leroy-chang"
description: "Leroy Li-Gong Chang was a Taiwanese–American solid-state physicist. Born in China, he studied in Taiwan and then the United States, obtaining his doctorate from Stanford University in 1963. As a research physicist, he studied semiconductors for nearly 30 years at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. This period included pioneering work on superlattice heterostructures with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leo Esaki."
tagline: "Experimental physicist and solid state electronics researcher and engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1936-01-20"
deathDate: "2008-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump