Sarah Kurtz and Jerry Olson, solar power innovators at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), will share this year's $1 million Dan David Future Prize with NASA climate scientist James Hansen.(PEOPLE IN THE NEWS)
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Sarah Kurtz and Jerry Olson, solar power innovators at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), will share this year's $1 million Dan David Future Prize with NASA climate scientist James Hansen. The prizes are granted to individuals or institutions that have made an outstanding contribution to humanity.
The NREL scientists pioneered the highly efficient multi-junction solar cell, which uses layers of semiconductor material to gain extremely high efficiencies in converting sunlight to electricity.
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