# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fritz-peter-schafer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:26:40.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fritz-peter-schafer"
name: "Fritz Peter Schäfer"
slug: "fritz-peter-schafer"
description: "Fritz Peter Schäfer was a German physicist, born in Hersfeld, Hesse-Nassau. He is the co-inventor of the organic dye laser. His book, Dye Lasers, is considered a classic in the field of tunable lasers. In this book the chapter written by Schäfer gives an ample and insightful exposition on organic laser dye molecules in addition to a description on the physics of telescopic, and multiple-prism, tunable narrow-linewidth laser oscillators."
tagline: "German physicist (1931–2011)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1931-01-15"
deathDate: "2011-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.09803921568627451
  historical:           8.070374666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._P._Sch%C3%A4fer"
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  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%81_%D9%BE%DB%8C_%D8%B4%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "اف پی شفر"
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    title: "Fritz Peter Schäfer"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump