# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-cava
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:09:01.329Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-cava"
name: "Robert Cava"
slug: "robert-cava"
description: "Robert Joseph Cava is a solid-state chemist at Princeton University where he holds the title Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry. Previously, Professor Cava worked as a staff scientist at Bell labs from 1979–1996, where earned the title of Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. As of 2016 his research investigates topological insulators, semimetals, superconductors, frustrated magnets and thermoelectrics."
tagline: "American chemist and university teacher (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Cava.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: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.672714666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://chemistry.princeton.edu/faculty/cava"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cava"
    title: "Robert Cava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AA_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A7"
    title: "رابرت کاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Cava"
    title: "Robert J. Cava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кава, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Cava"
    title: "Robert J. Cava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cava"
    title: "Robert Cava"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump