# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-fritts
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:34:55.240Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-fritts"
name: "Charles Fritts"
slug: "charles-fritts"
description: "Charles Fritts was an American inventor credited with creating the first working selenium cell in 1883."
tagline: "American inventor"
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: "1850-02-27"
deathDate: "1903"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.092010666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Charles Fritts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fritts"
    title: "Charles Fritts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fritts"
    title: "Charles Fritts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fritts"
    title: "Charles Fritts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fritts"
    title: "Charles Fritts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fritts"
    title: "Charles Fritts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fritts"
    title: "Charles Fritts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%84"
    title: "チャールズ・フリッツ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fritts"
    title: "Charles Fritts"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3814003"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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