Frederick Wade "Fritz" Mote (June 2, 1922 – February 10, 2005) was an American sinologist and a professor of History at Princeton University for nearly 50 years.
In 1943 (during World War II) he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force but was unable to go to flight school for medical reasons.
During the 1960s, Mote was able to secure financial resources from the Rockefeller and Ford foundations so the Gest Library could obtain a valuable collection of Chinese documents.
In 1980, Twitchett came to teach at Princeton and the two men worked closely together for the next eight years, co-editing volumes 7 and 8 of The Cambridge History of China.
She survived him after a marriage of 55 years and donated his collection of 6,000 books to the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library at Bowdoin College in 2011.