# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-tsai
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:52:01.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-tsai"
name: "Peter Tsai"
slug: "peter-tsai"
description: "Peter Tsai is a Taiwanese-American inventor and material scientist who is best known for inventing and patenting improved meltblown filtration manufacturing techniques, used in respirators, like N95 respirators, a 1995 NIOSH standard made to address the shortcomings of USBM standards. He is an expert in the field of nonwoven fabric. Tsai was a professor emeritus at the University of Tennessee, but ended his retirement during the COVID-19 pandemic to research mask and respirator sterilization."
tagline: "Taiwanese American material scientist and inventor"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1952-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.956229333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E7%A7%89%E7%87%9A"
    title: "蔡秉燚"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tsai"
    title: "Peter Tsai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tsai"
    title: "Peter Tsai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tsai"
    title: "Peter Tsai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tsai"
    title: "Peter Tsai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tsai"
    title: "Peter Tsai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tsai"
    title: "Peter Tsai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%A1%E7%A7%89%E7%87%9A"
    title: "蔡秉燚"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobrefas_de_Peter_Tsai"
    title: "Cobrefas de Peter Tsai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tsai"
    title: "Peter Tsai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91838758"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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