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Solar Energy Medal of Merit nominations open

7:39 a.m., March 17, 2004--Nominations for the 2005 Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit are now open and can be submitted until 5 p.m., Sept. 1.

The medal and a cash award of $40,000, funded by the Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit Trust, is given to an individual who has made significant pioneering contributions to the promotion of solar energy as an alternate source of energy through research, development or economic enterprise or to an individual who has made extraordinarily valuable and enduring contributions to the field of solar energy in other ways.

The award is given in honor of Karl Wolfgang Böer, a longtime UD faculty member, founder of UD’s Institute of Energy Conversion and a distinguished scientist in the field of solar cells.

The winner will be announced at a formal ceremony in the spring of 2005.

Nomination forms can be accessed on the Institute of Energy Conversion web site at [www.udel.edu/iec/KWBmm.html] or by calling 831-6258.

The form must be accompanied by the nominee’s complete curriculum vitae and the names, addresses and telephone numbers of five references. Judges will not consider copies of the nominee’s publications, patents, press releases or other materials.

Previous medal winners include:

1993--Former President Jimmy Carter;
1997--Adolf Goetzberger, founder of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems;
1999--Stanford R. Ovshinsky, a pioneer in the science of amorphous semiconductors resulting in the development of low-cost thin-film silicon solar cells;
2001--Allen M. Barnett, a pioneer in high-performance, thin-crystalline silicon solar cells and currently a policy scientist in UD’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy; and
2003--Martin A. Green, Inaugural Scientia Professor at the Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering in Sydney, Australia, and foundation director for the Centre for Third Generation University of New South Wales in Sydney.

For more information, call 831-6258.

Article by Barbara Garrison

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