# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/johannes-hint
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:46.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/johannes-hint"
name: "Johannes Hint"
slug: "johannes-hint"
description: "Johannes Rudolph Hint was an Estonian scientist and the only person to create and successfully run a limited company under the communist planned economy of the Soviet Union. With his company, Dessim Ltd, he earned millions for the Soviet Union. His most important scientific invention was the building material silikaltsiit (Laprex), which was developed through the execution of the disintegrator system. His inventions are still widely used in Germany, Austria, the United States, Japan and Russia."
tagline: "Estonian technology scientist (1914-1985)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1914-09-20"
deathDate: "1985-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.2
  momentum:             2.168674698795181
  historical:           5.078582666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hint"
    title: "Johannes Hint"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%81%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81_%D0%A5%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%82"
    title: "Ёханес Хінт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hint"
    title: "Johannes Hint"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%82%2C_%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Хинт, Иоханнес Александрович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hint"
    title: "Johannes Hint"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hint"
    title: "Johannes Hint"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8987300"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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