Nominations sought for Böer Solar Energy Medal
Vol. 17, No. 28April 23, 1998

Nominations sought for Böer Solar Energy Medal

Nominations for the 1999 Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit are now being accepted. The award consists of a $40,000 prize and a medal for 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 first Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit, presented in 1993, was awarded to former President Jimmy Carter, who was cited as the one individual who, more than anyone else, spurred development and focused world attention on the relatively unknown technology for safe and environmentally sound energy production from the sun.

For his discovery and development of thin film amorphous silicon solar cells for the conversion of sunlight to electricity, David E. Carlson, vice president of Solarex, Thin Film Division of AMOCO, was the 1995 recipient.

The 1997 recipient was Adolf Goetzberger honored for his many important contributions to solar energy technology including development of polycrystalline silicon materials preparation, establishment of a solar cell calibration facility and development of PV systems engineering techniques.

The Karl W. Böer Solar Energy Medal of Merit is given in honor of Karl Wolfgang Böer, a longtime faculty member of the University of Delaware, founder of its Institute for Energy Conversion, and a distinguished scientist in the field of solar cells. The International Solar Energy Society is a co-sponsor of this award.

Nominations for the 1999 Award are being accepted until Oct. 15.

To obtain a nomination form, contact Stanley I. Sandler, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716; fax: 831-4466; or send e-mail to sandler@che.udel.edu