Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Herbert Franz Mataré (born September 22, 1912) is a German physicist. The focus of his research is 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, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Mataré lives in Hückelhoven. Born in Aachen, he is the nephew of the sculptor Ewald Mataré (1887 1965).