# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-russell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:20:50.480Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-russell"
name: "James Russell"
slug: "james-russell"
description: "James Torrance Russell is an American physicist and the inventor of compact disc technology. He earned a BA in physics from Reed College in Portland in 1953. He joined General Electric's nearby labs in Richland, Washington, where he devised experimental instrumentation. He designed and built the first electron beam welder."
tagline: "American inventor, born 1931"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.05
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.220052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جیمز رسل (موجد)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_(%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%B9)"
    title: "جيمس راسل (مخترع)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Russell"
    title: "James T. Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_(inventor)"
    title: "James Russell (inventor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8B%D5%A5%D5%B5%D5%B4%D5%BD_%D5%8C%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%A5%D5%AC_(%D5%A3%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D6%80)"
    title: "Ջեյմս Ռասել (գյուտարար)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_T._Russell"
    title: "James T. Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BD"
    title: "ജെയിംസ് റസ്സൽ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell"
    title: "James Russell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Рассел, Джеймс (изобретатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB_(%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA)"
    title: "Джеймс Рассел (винахідник)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_(imbentor)"
    title: "James Russell (imbentor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3308724"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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