# Dan Alderson

> Daniel John Alderson was a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and a prominent participant in science fiction fandom. He came from a middle-class family and had diabetes. A high school science fair project on the gravitational fields of non-spherical bodies won him a college scholarship to Caltech and a job at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he wrote the software used to navigate Voyagers 1 and 2.

*American scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/dan-alderson

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1941-10-31
- **Died:** 1989-05-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 37.5 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 4.8 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 30.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Sources
- [دان ألدرسون](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86)
- [Dan Alderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Alderson)
- [Dan Alderson](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Alderson)
- [ダン・オルダーソン](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3)
- [Dan Alderson](https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Alderson)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3013008)

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