# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manuel-cardona-castro
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:55:52.876Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manuel-cardona-castro"
name: "Manuel Cardona Castro"
slug: "manuel-cardona-castro"
description: "Manuel Cardona Castro was a Spanish condensed matter physicist. According to the ISI Citations web database, Cardona was one of the eight most cited physicists since 1970. He specialized in solid state physics. Cardona's main interests were in the fields of: Raman scattering as applied to semiconductor microstructures, materials with tailor-made isotopic compositions, and high Tc superconductors, particularly investigations of electronic and vibronic excitations in the normal and superconducting state."
tagline: "Spanish physicist (1934–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Manuel_Cardona.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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birthDate: "1934-09-07"
deathDate: "2014-07-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.8099
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump