# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-a-bardeen
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:19.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-a-bardeen"
name: "William A. Bardeen"
slug: "william-a-bardeen"
description: "William Allan Bardeen was an American theoretical physicist who worked at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is renowned for his foundational work on the chiral anomaly, the Yang-Mills and gravitational anomalies, the development of quantum chromodynamics and the  scheme frequently used in perturbative analysis of experimentally observable processes such as deep inelastic scattering, high energy collisions and flavor changing processes."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/WilliamABardeen.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-09-15"
deathDate: "2025-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump