# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-telkes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:02:56.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-telkes"
name: "Mária Telkes"
slug: "maria-telkes"
description: "Mária Telkes was a Hungarian-American biophysicist, engineer, and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies."
tagline: "Hungarian–American scientist and inventor (1900–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria_Telkes_NYWTS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1900-12-12"
deathDate: "1995-12-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.46
  momentum:             1.310370647697492
  historical:           20.64208933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "მარია ტელკესი"
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    title: "Mária Telkes"
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    title: "Mária Telkes"
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    title: "Mária Telkes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Մարիա Տելկեշ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mária Telkes"
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    title: "Mária Telkes"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump