# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alvin-c-graves
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:29:18.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alvin-c-graves"
name: "Alvin C. Graves"
slug: "alvin-c-graves"
description: "Alvin Cushman Graves was an American nuclear physicist who served at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. After the war, he became the head of the J (Test) Division at Los Alamos and was director or assistant director of numerous nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950s. Graves was severely injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident in Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin, but recovered."
tagline: "American nuclear physicist (1909–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alvin_C._Graves.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1909-11-04"
deathDate: "1965-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             13.83720930232558
  historical:           4.656304
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  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "অ্যালভিন কুশম্যান গ্রেভস"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump