# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-benioff
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:47:14.820Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-benioff"
name: "Paul Benioff"
slug: "paul-benioff"
description: "Paul Anthony Benioff was an American physicist who helped pioneer the field of quantum computing. Benioff was best known for his research in quantum information theory during the 1970s and 80s that demonstrated the theoretical possibility of quantum computers by describing the first quantum mechanical model of a computer. In this work, Benioff showed that a computer could operate under the laws of quantum mechanics by describing a Schrödinger equation description of Turing machines. Benioff's body of work in quantum information theory encompassed quantum computers, quantum robots, and the relationship between foundations in logic, math, and physics."
tagline: "American physicist of quantum computing"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Benioff_profile_picture_with_glasses.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-05-01"
deathDate: "2022-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.820124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Benioff"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Benioff"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Benioff"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Benioff"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump