# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-h-dewitt-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:53:16.940Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-h-dewitt-jr"
name: "John H. DeWitt, Jr."
slug: "john-h-dewitt-jr"
description: "John H. DeWitt Jr. was an American pioneer in radio broadcasting, radar astronomy and photometry. He observed the first successful reception of radio echoes off the Moon on January 10, 1946, as part of Project Diana."
tagline: "American radio astronomy pioneer who observed first moonbounce transmission in 1946"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1906-02-20"
deathDate: "1999-01-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "جون إتش ديويت جونيور"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._DeWitt_Jr."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump