Pioneering Hungarian-American physicist Maria Telkes, an early champion of the possibilities of solar energy, is being remembered on the 122nd anniversary of her birth and the 70th anniversary of her winning the inaugural Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award on 12 December 1952.
Dr Telkes was born in Budapest, Hungary, on this date in 1900 and studied physical chemistry at the city’s Eotvos Lorand University from 1920, earning her doctorate in 1924.
