# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-minovitch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:03:55.104Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-minovitch"
name: "Michael Minovitch"
slug: "michael-minovitch"
description: "Michael Andrew Minovitch was an American mathematician who developed gravity assist technique when he was a UCLA graduate student and working summers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He claimed that he invented the technique, even though multiple publications preceded his own. He later sued several people, including Richard Battin who published a paper on gravity assists in 1958, for stealing his ideas, but lost."
tagline: "American mathematician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935"
deathDate: "2022-09-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.45
  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "迈克尔·米诺维奇"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael Minovitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Minovitch"
    title: "Michael Minovitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Minovitch"
    title: "Michael Minovitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Minovitch"
    title: "Michael Minovitch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Minovitch"
    title: "Michael Minovitch"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Минович, Майкл"
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    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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