# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-hestenes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:50:14.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-hestenes"
name: "David Hestenes"
slug: "david-hestenes"
description: "David Orlin Hestenes is an American theoretical physicist and science educator. He is best known as chief architect of geometric algebra as a unified language for mathematics and physics, and as founder of Modelling Instruction, a research-based program to reform K–12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Hestenes_ASU_March_2019_SciAPP_conference.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           7.02484
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  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://davidhestenes.net"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump