# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/philip-burton-moon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:18:07.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/philip-burton-moon"
name: "Philip Burton Moon"
slug: "philip-burton-moon"
description: "Philip Burton Moon FRS was a British nuclear physicist. He is most remembered for his research work in atomic physics and nuclear physics. He is one of the British scientists who participated in the United States' Manhattan Project, Britain's Tube Alloys, and was involved in nuclear weapon development. Moon made outstanding and original experimental contributions which stimulated the development of whole fields of research involving neutrons, gamma rays and novel methods of studying chemical reactions."
tagline: "British physicist (1907–1994)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Philip_Burton_Moon%2C_1964.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1907-05-17"
deathDate: "1994-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.336717333333334
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "فيليپ بورتون مون"
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    title: "Philip Burton Moon"
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    title: "فیلیپ بارتون مون"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Burton_Moon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump