# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-ebbesen
# Generated: 2026-08-31T23:26:18.776Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-ebbesen"
name: "Thomas Ebbesen"
slug: "thomas-ebbesen"
description: "Thomas Wren Ebbesen is a Franco-Norwegian physical chemist and professor at the University of Strasbourg in France, known for his pioneering work in nanoscience. He received the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience “for transformative contributions to the field of nano-optics that have broken long-held beliefs about the limitations of the resolution limits of optical microscopy and imaging”, together with Stefan Hell, and Sir John Pendry in 2014."
tagline: "Norwegian and French chemist"
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country:
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birthDate: "1954-01-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump