# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/al-hibbs
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:01:16.839Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/al-hibbs"
name: "Al Hibbs"
slug: "al-hibbs"
description: "Albert Roach Hibbs was an American mathematician and physicist affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He was known as \"The Voice of JPL\" due to his gift for explaining advanced science in simple terms. He helped establish JPL's Space Science Division in 1960 and later served as its first chief. He was the systems designer for Explorer 1, the USA's first satellite, and helped establish the framework for exploration of the Solar System through the 1960s. Hibbs qualified as an astronaut in 1967 and was slated to be a crew member of Apollo 25, but he ultimately did not go to the Moon due to the Apollo program ending after the Apollo 17 mission in 1972."
tagline: "American mathematician (1924-2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Al_Hibbs_JPL-2.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1924-10-19"
deathDate: "2003-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             6.616502958757621
  historical:           5.288842666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Albert Hibbs"
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    title: "ألبرت هبيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Roach_Hibbs"
    title: "Albert Roach Hibbs"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump