# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tejinder-virdee
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:38:50.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tejinder-virdee"
name: "Tejinder Virdee"
slug: "tejinder-virdee"
description: "Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee,, is a Kenyan-born British experimental particle physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. He is best known for originating the concept of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) alongside a few other colleagues and has been referred to as one of the 'founding fathers' of the project. CMS is a world-wide collaboration which started in 1991 and now has over 3500 participants from 50 countries."
tagline: "British physicist"
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country:
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birthDate: "1952-10-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump