# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dan-alderson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:04:50.284Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dan-alderson"
name: "Dan Alderson"
slug: "dan-alderson"
description: "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."
tagline: "American scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dan_Alderson_at_LASFS.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: "1941-10-31"
deathDate: "1989-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.805616
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "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"
    title: "دان ألدرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Alderson"
    title: "Dan Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Alderson"
    title: "Dan Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "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"
    title: "ダン・オルダーソン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Alderson"
    title: "Dan Alderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3013008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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