# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/neil-gershenfeld
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:46:24.704Z

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name: "Neil Gershenfeld"
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description: "Neil Adam Gershenfeld is an American physicist. He is a professor in the MIT Program in Media Arts and Sciences and the director of the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms. He works mainly on interdisciplinary topics in physics and computer science, such as quantum computing, nanotechnology, and personal fabrication. He has been called the \"intellectual father of the maker movement\"."
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birthDate: "1959-12-01"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump