# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-q-twiss
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:26:11.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-q-twiss"
name: "Richard Q. Twiss"
slug: "richard-q-twiss"
description: "Richard Quintin Twiss was a British astronomer. He is known for his work on the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect with Robert Hanbury Brown. It led to the development of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss intensity interferometer in the UK in 1954. Their work appeared to contradict the established beliefs about quantum interference, and he and Brown received the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for it in 1968."
tagline: "Astronomer and physicist from United Kingdom"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1920-08-24"
deathDate: "2005-05-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "Richard Q. Twiss"
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    title: "ريتشارد كوينتين تويس"
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    title: "ரிச்சர்ட் கியூ. ட்விஸ்"
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    title: "Richard Q. Twiss"
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    title: "Richard Twiss"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump