Mária Telkes
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Hungarian–American scientist and inventor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mária Telkes was a Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies. She moved to the United States in 1925 to work as a biophysicist. She became an American citizen in 1937 and started work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to create practical uses of solar energy in 1939.
Mária Telkes's Published Works
Published Works
- Solar Thermoelectric Generators (1954) (180)
- Nucleation of supersaturated inorganic salt solutions (1952) (147)
- The Efficiency of Thermoelectric Generators. I. (1947) (105)
- Thermal energy storage in salt hydrates (1980) (85)
- Solar cooking ovens (1959) (76)
- Chapter 14 – SOLAR ENERGY STORAGE (1974) (56)
- Electrical Properties of Rocks and Minerals (1942) (38)
- Thermoelectric power and electrical resistivity of minerals (1950) (32)
- Storing solar heat in chemicals (1950) (29)
- Fresh water from sea water by solar distillation (1953) (24)
- Review of solar house heating (1949) (23)
- Storage of solar heating/cooling (1974) (17)
- Solar house heating: problem of heat storage (1947) (16)
- Thermal storage in metals (1976) (14)
- Remarks on “thermal energy storage using sodium sulfate decahydrate and water” [1] (1978) (11)
- LOW TEMPERATURE THERMAL ENERGY STORAGE (1977) (9)
- The energy resources and electric power situation in the United States (1972) (9)
- BIOELECTRICAL MEASUREMENTS ON AMOEBAE (1931) (9)
- Power Output of Thermoelectric Generators (1954) (8)
- CHAPTER 11 – THERMAL STORAGE IN SALT - HYDRATES (1980) (7)
- Space heating with solar energy. (1949) (7)
- Electrical resistivity and thermoelectric power of—Antimony-selenium alloys— (1950) (4)
- Low-cost solar heated house (1950) (3)
- The Physical Nature of Death (1930) (3)
- An Investigation of the Physical Nature of Cancer Cells (1931) (3)
- Future Uses of Solar Energy (1951) (2)
- THE NATURE OF LIVING CELLS: WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE NATURE OF CANCER CELLS AND OF FATTY DEGENERATION (1931) (1)
- Solar heating for houses (1959) (1)
- Test house heated only by solar heat (1949) (1)
- Autosynthetic cells (1)
- CHAPTER 12 – THERMODYNAMIC BASIS FOR SELECTING HEAT STORAGE MATERIALS (1980) (1)
- An Interpretation of Excitation, Exhaustion and Death in Terms of Physical Constants. (1928) (1)
- THE PREPARATION OF A STABLE COLLOIDAL SOLUTION OF LEAD (1927) (1)
- Book Reviews: Solar Energy Research (1956) (0)
- Book Reviews: World Symposium on Applied Solar Energy, Proceedings (1957) (0)
- This midwest house, with solar window, water-cooled roof, cavity walls and cellular floors, masters a difficult climate (1947) (0)
- RESEARCH ON PELTIER EFFECT COOLING. Final Report (1955) (0)
- Wickes, Inc. , uses its wartime experience to build a house with packaged utilities, solar fenestration, prefab radiant heat (1947) (0)
- Wind and Solar Energy . Proceedings of the New Delhi Symposium. Arid Zone Research, vol. VII. UNESCO, Paris, 1956. 238 pp. $8. (1958) (0)
- House in Toronto (1946) (0)
- Heating with sunbeams (1941) (0)
- Stored sunlight heats home (1950) (0)
- Myelin Structures in Lipoids and Their Relation to Electric Charges (1933) (0)
- Solar Energy Research . Farrington Daniels and John A. Duffie, Eds. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1955. xv + 290 pp. Illus. + plates. $4. (1956) (0)
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