# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-hawkins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:02:09.751Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-hawkins"
name: "David Hawkins"
slug: "david-hawkins"
description: "David Hawkins was an American scientist whose interests included the philosophy of science, mathematics, economics, childhood science education, and ethics. He was also an administrative assistant at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory and later one of its official historians. Together with Herbert A. Simon, he discovered and proved the Hawkins–Simon theorem."
tagline: "American philosopher of science (1913-2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hawkins-david.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1913-02-28"
deathDate: "2002-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.114552
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ديفيد هوكينز (أستاذ جامعي)"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hawkins_(Philosoph)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hawkins_(philosopher)"
    title: "David Hawkins (philosopher)"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hawkins_(filsuf)"
    title: "David Hawkins (filsuf)"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hawkins"
    title: "David Hawkins"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1174693"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump