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Mária Telkes was a Hungarian-American biophysicist, engineer, and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.
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science · Hungarian-American engineer, scientist and inventor (1900–1995) · chemist · biophysicist · inventor · also Mária Telkes, Mária Telkes Arefereas, Maria Telkes, Mária Theresa Telkes, the Sun Queen, Telkes
Born 12 December 1900 · Died 2 December 1995 · Q7415
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I have been intensively interested in Chemistry and Physics during my high school days. I aimed to develop new energy sources, especially the use of Solar Energy. I have studied with this aim in mind, and nothing could have stopped me from working in this field. If I have succeeded to some extent, I feel that I enjoyed my scientific work more than any other activity.
Solar energy is our greatest untapped energy resource and future development in its utilization should be regarded as one of the most important and fruitful projects.
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“I have been intensively interested in Chemistry and Physics during my high school days. I aimed to develop new energy sources, especially the use of Solar Energy. I have studied with this aim in mind, and nothing could have stopped me from working in this field. If I have succeeded to some extent, I feel that I enjoyed my scientific work more than any other activity.”
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“Solar energy is our greatest untapped energy resource and future development in its utilization should be regarded as one of the most important and fruitful projects.”
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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2012).
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Died 1995-12-02.
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Where she championed the importance of solar energy as fossil fuel resources dwindled
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Helped the US Department of Energy to develop and build the first fully solar-powered home, Carlisle House in Carlisle, Massachusetts
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Moved from Texas to Maryland with Monegon, Ltd
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Helped to build the first house to generate both heat and electricity from the sun
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Telkes joined the Institute of Energy Conversion at the University of Delaware as an adjunct professor of Energy Conversion with a goal of substituting clean sun energy for "some of the polluting fuels"
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Spoke at the first International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists in New York
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Created a solar oven for people at various latitudes that could be used by children
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George Russell Harrison, dean of science at MIT, called for a review of the solar fund at MIT, due to concerns about its lack of productivity
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Awarded Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award (1952).
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Telkes became the first recipient of the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award
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Telkes and Raymond discussed the house at the MIT symposium of Space Heating with Solar Energy, where they explained how this experiment was also a stepping stone for future solar heated homes
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Telkes started working on the Dover Sun House; she teamed up with architect Eleanor Raymond, with the project financed by philanthropist and sculptor Amelia Peabody
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The group tried to use Glauber's salt in the design of their second solar house
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From the OSRD and on March 15, 1952, the Society of Women Engineers awarded her their first Achievement Award "for her wartime method of distilling water from salt water by solar heat
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Marked a pivotal moment in Telkes's life
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And started work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to create practical uses of solar energy in 1939
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And visited a relative who was the Hungarian consul in Cleveland, Ohio
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Studied at Eötvös Loránd University (1920).
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Was elevated to the Hungarian nobility, with the prefix kelenföldi
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Born 1900-12-12.
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To Aladár and Mária (née Lábán) de Telkes
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Her father magyarized the family name to Telkes
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