# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-e-h-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:36:39.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-e-h-jones"
name: "David E. H. Jones"
slug: "david-e-h-jones"
description: "David Edward Hugh Jones was a British chemist and writer, who - under the pen name Daedalus - was the fictional inventor for DREADCO. Jones' columns as Daedalus were published for 38 years, starting weekly in 1964 in New Scientist. He then moved to the journal Nature, and continued to publish until 2002. Columns from these magazines, along with additional comments and implementation sketches, were collected in two books: The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes (1982) and The Further Inventions of Daedalus (1999)."
tagline: "British chemist, columnist and science writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ChemicalGardenInspection_(4298635010).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1938-04-20"
deathDate: "2017-07-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.03
  momentum:             4.347826086956522
  historical:           6.146365333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "David E. H. Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2_(%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A)"
    title: "ديفيد جونز (كيميائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دايفيد جونز (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._H._Jones"
    title: "David E. H. Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._H._Jones"
    title: "David E. H. Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._H._Jones"
    title: "David E. H. Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._H._Jones"
    title: "David E. H. Jones"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q260857"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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