# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shamit-kachru
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:58:10.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shamit-kachru"
name: "Shamit Kachru"
slug: "shamit-kachru"
description: "Shamit Kachru is an American theoretical physicist, a professor emeritus of physics at Stanford University, and a former Wells Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. He served as the Stanford Physics Department Chair from 2018 to 2021. He retired in 2023."
tagline: "Theoretical physicist, a professor of physics at Stanford University, the Wells Family Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Stanford Physics Department Chair"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1970-07-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://profiles.stanford.edu/shamit-kachru"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump