Joan Hinton
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Joan Hinton with her brother Bill at her farm in Beijing
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| Born |
Joan Chase Hinton October 20, 1921 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | June 8, 2010 (aged 88) Beijing, China |
| Other names | Chinese: 寒春 |
| Occupation | nuclear physicist |
| Spouse(s) | Erwin Engst (m. 1949, died 2003) |
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| Relatives |
William H. Hinton (brother) Jean Hinton Rosner |
Joan Chase 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.
On 20 October 1921, Hinton was born as Joan Chase Hinton in Chicago, Illinois. Her father, Sebastian Hinton, was a lawyer (who also was the inventor of the jungle gym); her mother, Carmelita Hinton, was an educator and the founder of The Putney School, an independent progressive school in Vermont.
Her sister, Jean Hinton Rosner (1917–2002), was a civil rights and peace activist. Joan Hinton's great-grandfather was the mathematician George Boole; Ethel Lilian Voynich, a great-aunt, was the author of The Gadfly, a novel later read by millions of Soviet and Chinese readers.
Hinton studied physics at Bennington College. In 1942, Hinton earned a bachelor’s degree in natural science from Bennington College. In 1944, Hinton earned a doctorate in Physics from University of Wisconsin.
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