# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-alfano
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:28:16.837Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-alfano"
name: "Robert Alfano"
slug: "robert-alfano"
description: "Robert Alfano is an Italian-American experimental physicist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering at the City College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, where he is also the founding director of the Institute for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Lasers (1982). He is a pioneer in the fields of Biomedical Imaging and Spectroscopy, Ultrafast lasers and optics, tunable lasers, semiconductor materials and devices, optical materials, biophysics, nonlinear optics and photonics; he has also worked extensively in nanotechnology and coherent backscattering. His discovery of the white-light supercontinuum laser is at the root of optical coherence tomography, which is breaking barriers in ophthalmology, cardiology, and oral cancer detection among other applications. He initiated the field known now as optical biopsy."
tagline: "American physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1941-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             15
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump