Joan Hinton

Physicist, Deceased Person

1921 – 2010

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Who was Joan Hinton?

Joan Hinton was a nuclear physicist and one of the few female 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 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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Born
Oct 20, 1921
Chicago
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  • Bennington College
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
Died
Jun 8, 2010

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on July 23, 2013

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