# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ramamurti-shankar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:47:35.316Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ramamurti-shankar"
name: "Ramamurti Shankar"
slug: "ramamurti-shankar"
description: "Ramamurti Shankar is an American theoretical physicist who is the Josiah Willard Gibbs Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. His research spans theoretical condensed matter physics and quantum field theory, with major contributions to the renormalization group theory of Fermi liquids, the fractional quantum Hall effect, and exact solutions in statistical mechanics."
tagline: "American physicist"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1947-04-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump