A fact from Jane Hamilton Hall appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 July 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Jane Hamilton Hall oversaw the construction of the Clementine, the world's first fast reactor, the first to be fueled by plutonium and the first to use a liquid metal coolant?
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She got a BS at 13/14? MS and PHD earn dates are awfully young too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.211.236 (talk) 00:46, 23 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, but that's what you get from using secondary sources. There are all agreed on 1923, but it does seem like a typo. If she were an Australian, I could look up her birth, death and marriage records. (Where is Doogie Houser when you need him?) Hawkeye7 (talk) 03:20, 23 July 2016 (UTC)Reply
Note for file: After correspondence with Ruth Howe, I obtained the original source, and the error was in transcription, due to the use of the mdy date format. Corrected in the article. Hawkeye7 (talk) 00:43, 6 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
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