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Joan Hinton

American physicist

Died when: 88 years 231 days (1063 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Joan Hinton

Joan Hinton (Chinese name: 寒春, Pinyin: Hán Chūn; 20 October 1921 – 8 June 2010) was a nuclear physicist and one of the few women scientists who worked for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos.

She lived in the People's Republic of China after 1949, where she and her husband Erwin (Sid) Engst participated in China's efforts at developing a socialist economy, working extensively in agriculture.

She lived on a dairy farm north of Beijing before her death on June 8, 2010.


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