# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joan-hinton
# Generated: 2026-09-02T11:47:50.470Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joan-hinton"
name: "Joan Hinton"
slug: "joan-hinton"
description: "Joan Hinton was a nuclear physicist and one of the few female scientists who worked for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. Dismayed at the use of the atomic bomb against the Japanese, she went to live and work in China, staying on after the establishment of the People's Republic of China after 1949. She and her husband Erwin (Sid) Engst participated in China's efforts at developing a socialist economy, working extensively in agriculture, and supported the policies of Mao Zedong. She lived on a dairy farm north of Beijing before her death on June 8, 2010."
tagline: "American physicist (1921–2010)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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birthDate: "1921-10-20"
deathDate: "2010-06-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           9.776868
  currentAttention:     12.54045307443366
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump