# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-pearson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:31:37.288Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-pearson"
name: "Gerald Pearson"
slug: "gerald-pearson"
description: "Gerald L. Pearson was an American physicist whose work on silicon rectifiers at Bell Labs led to the invention of the solar cell. In 2008, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American physicist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1905-03-31"
deathDate: "1987-10-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           7.414184000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Gerald Pearson"
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    title: "Gerald Pearson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump