# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-l-byer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:45:16.712Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-l-byer"
name: "Robert L. Byer"
slug: "robert-l-byer"
description: "Robert Louis Byer is a physicist. He was president of the Optical Society of America in 1994 and of the American Physical Society in 2012."
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category:
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birthDate: "1942-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump