# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-king-allison
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:42:38.116Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-king-allison"
name: "Samuel King Allison"
slug: "samuel-king-allison"
description: "Samuel King Allison was an American physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. A professor who studied X-rays, he was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he \"rode herd\" on the final stages of the project as part of the \"Cowpuncher Committee\", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war, he returned to the University of Chicago to direct the Institute for Nuclear Studies and was involved in the \"scientists' movement\", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons."
tagline: "American physicist and nuclear scientist (1900–1965)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_King_Allison.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1900-11-13"
deathDate: "1965-09-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump