# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ada-hitchins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:59:11.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ada-hitchins"
name: "Ada Hitchins"
slug: "ada-hitchins"
description: "Ada Florence Remfry Hitchins was the principal research assistant of British chemist Frederick Soddy, who won the Nobel prize in 1921 for work on radioactive elements and the theory of isotopes. Hitchins isolated samples from uranium ores, taking precise and accurate measurements of atomic mass that provided the first experimental evidence for the existence of different isotopes. She also helped to discover the element protactinium, which Dmitri Mendeleev had predicted should occur in the periodic table between uranium and thorium."
tagline: "English nuclear research assistant"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1891-06-26"
deathDate: "1972-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           6.139777333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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    title: "أدا هيتشنز"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump