# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-thomas-humberstone
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:03.172Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-thomas-humberstone"
name: "James Thomas Humberstone"
slug: "james-thomas-humberstone"
description: "James Thomas Humberstone was an English chemical engineer. In 1872, he founded the Peru Nitrate Company to extract saltpetre in the Tarapacá Province of Peru. He introduced the Shanks System and other innovations to the industry."
tagline: "English chemical engineer, who invented the Shanks system to make sodium carbonate (1850–1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Santiago_Humberstone.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: "1850-07-08"
deathDate: "1939-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.1400462962963
  historical:           5.482578666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Хамберстон, Джеймс Томас"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump