# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-beaumont-neilson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:26:27.422Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-beaumont-neilson"
name: "James Beaumont Neilson"
slug: "james-beaumont-neilson"
description: "James Beaumont Neilson was a Scottish inventor whose hot-blast process greatly increased the efficiency of smelting iron."
tagline: "Scottish inventor of the hot-blast process for smelting iron (1792-1865)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Beaumont_Neilson_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1792-07-22"
deathDate: "1865-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.73
  momentum:             18.00751879699248
  historical:           9.812456000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Джеймс Бомон Нілсон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson"
    title: "James Beaumont Neilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson"
    title: "James Beaumont Neilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson"
    title: "James Beaumont Neilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson"
    title: "James Beaumont Neilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson"
    title: "James Beaumont Neilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson"
    title: "James Beaumont Neilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson"
    title: "James Beaumont Neilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson"
    title: "James Beaumont Neilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Нилсон, Джеймс Бомон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Beaumont_Neilson"
    title: "James Beaumont Neilson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1355479"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump