# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/siegfried-hecker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:14:08.344Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/siegfried-hecker"
name: "Siegfried Hecker"
slug: "siegfried-hecker"
description: "Siegfried S. Hecker is an American metallurgist and nuclear scientist. He served as Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997 and is now affiliated with Stanford University, where he is research professor emeritus in the Department of Management Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering, and senior fellow emeritus at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. During this time, he was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1988) for outstanding research on plutonium and the forming of materials, and for leadership in developing energy and weapons systems."
tagline: "Nuclear scientist"
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birthDate: "1943-10-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump