# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ralph-arthur-james
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:29:43.257Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ralph-arthur-james"
name: "Ralph Arthur James"
slug: "ralph-arthur-james"
description: "Ralph Arthur James was an American chemist at the University of Chicago who co-discovered the elements curium (1944) and americium (1944–1945). Later he worked at UCLA and for the Lawrence Livermore laboratory in California."
tagline: "American chemist (1920-1973)"
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: "1920-09-23"
deathDate: "1973-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.13
  momentum:             1.739130434782609
  historical:           6.537221333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_James"
    title: "Ralph James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_A._James"
    title: "Ralph A. James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81_%D8%A3._%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3"
    title: "رالف أ. جيمس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_A._James"
    title: "Ralph A. James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_A._James"
    title: "Ralph A. James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Arthur_James"
    title: "Ralph Arthur James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_A._James"
    title: "Ralph A. James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2023093"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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