# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/herbert-matare
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:13:13.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/herbert-matare"
name: "Herbert Mataré"
slug: "herbert-matare"
description: "Herbert Franz Mataré was a German physicist. The focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional European transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, independent from the Bell Labs engineers who had developed the first transistor shortly before."
tagline: "German physicist (1912-2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herbert_F._Matar%C3%A9_1990.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1912-09-22"
deathDate: "2011-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "هربرت ماتري"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Matar%C3%A9"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump