# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rachel-makinson
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:31:49.559Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rachel-makinson"
name: "Rachel Makinson"
slug: "rachel-makinson"
description: "Kathleen Rachel Makinson was an Australian physicist and the first woman to become a chief research scientist at the country's research organization, CSIRO."
tagline: "Australian physicist (1917–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rachel_Makinson_portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1917-02-15"
deathDate: "2014-10-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.32
  momentum:             6.060606060606061
  historical:           5.268574666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Rachel Makinson"
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    title: "راشيل ماكينسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Makinson"
    title: "Rachel Makinson"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Makinson"
    title: "Rachel Makinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Makinson"
    title: "Rachel Makinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Makinson"
    title: "Rachel Makinson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16914097"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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