# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/allen-v-astin
# Generated: 2026-09-01T08:36:55.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/allen-v-astin"
name: "Allen V. Astin"
slug: "allen-v-astin"
description: "Allen Varley Astin was an American physicist who served as the fifth director of the United States National Bureau of Standards from 1951 until 1969. During the Second World War he worked on the proximity fuse. He was an advocate for introduction of metric weights and measures to the United States. He was an elected member to the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Astin_Allen001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1904-06-12"
deathDate: "1984-01-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.14
  momentum:             15.2888346116021
  historical:           1.632225333333333
  currentAttention:     72.08872458410353
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_V._Astin"
    title: "Allen V. Astin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19281614"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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