# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/boyce-mcdaniel
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:07:58.689Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/boyce-mcdaniel"
name: "Boyce McDaniel"
slug: "boyce-mcdaniel"
description: "Boyce Dawkins McDaniel was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS). McDaniel was skilled in constructing \"atom smashing\" devices to study the fundamental structure of matter and helped to build the most powerful particle accelerators of his time. Together with his graduate student, he invented the pair spectrometer."
tagline: "American physicist (1917–2002)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1917-06-11"
deathDate: "2002-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump