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Maria Telkes 
Maria Telkes
Budapest, Hungary
Maria Telkes (1900-1995) was a Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies. A physical chemist and biophysicist, Telkes is best known for her invention of the solar distiller and the first solar-powered heating system designed for residences. She also invented other devices capable of storing energy captured from sunlight. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Telkes
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Telkes' most famous quote: “Sunlight will be used as a source of energy sooner or later. Why wait?” Speaking at the first International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists in New York in 1964, Maria Telkes told her audience: “It is the things supposed to be impossible that interest me. I like to do things they say cannot be done.”
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Budapest, Hungary
Maria Telkes (1900-1995) was a Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies. A physical chemist and biophysicist, Telkes is best known for her invention of the solar distiller and the first solar-powered heating system designed for residences. She also invented other devices capable of storing energy captured from sunlight. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Telkes
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Telkes' most famous quote: “Sunlight will be used as a source of energy sooner or later. Why wait?” Speaking at the first International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists in New York in 1964, Maria Telkes told her audience: “It is the things supposed to be impossible that interest me. I like to do things they say cannot be done.”
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