# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steven-girvin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:05:08.897Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steven-girvin"
name: "Steven Girvin"
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description: "Steven Mark Girvin is an American physicist who is Sterling Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. He is noted for his theoretical work on quantum many body systems such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, and as co-developer of circuit quantum electrodynamics, the application of the ideas of quantum optics to superconducting microwave circuits. Circuit QED is now the leading architecture for construction of quantum computers based on superconducting qubits."
tagline: "American physicist"
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birthDate: "1950-04-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump