Episode 2050
Mária Telkes
Tue, 2022-Dec-13 02:25 UTC
Length - 2:35
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With 564,283 views on Monday, 12 December 2022 our article of the day is Mária Telkes.
Mária Telkes (December 12, 1900 – December 2, 1995) 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. While at MIT, Telkes created a method that used sodium sulfate to store energy from the sun.
During World War II, she developed a solar distillation device, deployed at the end of the war, which saved the lives of downed airmen and torpedoed sailors. Her goal was to create a version for villagers in poor and arid regions.
Telkes, often called The Sun Queen, is considered one of the founders of solar thermal storage systems. After the war, she became an associate research professor at MIT.
In the 1940s she and architect Eleanor Raymond created the first solar-heated house by storing energy each day. In 1953 they created a solar oven for people at various latitudes that could be used by children. She developed a way for farmers to dry off their crops. In 1952, Telkes became the first recipient of the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award. She was awarded a lifetime achievement award from the National Academy of Sciences Building Research Advisory Board in 1977. Telkes registered more than 20 patents.
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