# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wallace-d-hayes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:15:45.996Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wallace-d-hayes"
name: "Wallace D. Hayes"
slug: "wallace-d-hayes"
description: "Wallace Dean Hayes was a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University and one of the world's leading theoretical aerodynamicists, whose numerous and fundamental contributions to the theories of supersonic and hypersonic flow and wave motion strongly influenced the design of aircraft at supersonic speeds and missiles at hypersonic speeds. This greatly enhanced the development of supersonic flight and supersonic aircraft design."
tagline: "American mechanical and aerospace engineer (1918–2001)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1918-09-04"
deathDate: "2001-03-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.08
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.669438666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wallace D. Hayes"
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    title: "والاس د. هايز"
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    title: "Wallace D. Hayes"
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    title: "Wallace Hayes"
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    title: "Wallace Hayes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump