# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-w-kennedy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:17:35.371Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-w-kennedy"
name: "Joseph W. Kennedy"
slug: "joseph-w-kennedy"
description: "Joseph William Kennedy was an American chemist who co-discovered plutonium, along with Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and Arthur Wahl. During World War II, he led the CM Division at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, where he oversaw research onto the chemistry and metallurgy of uranium and plutonium. After the war, he was recruited as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is credited with transforming a university primarily concerned with undergraduate teaching into one that also boasts strong graduate and research programs. He died of cancer of the stomach at the age of 40."
tagline: "American chemist (1916–1957)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_W._Kennedy_Los_Alamos_identity_badge_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1916-05-30"
deathDate: "1957-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           14.437908
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump