Walter Kohn To Give Plenary Address At 2009 Mrs Spring Meeting

摘要

Nobel laureate Walter Kohn of the University of California, Santa Barbara will give the plenary address at the 2009 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting to be held April 13-17 in San Francisco. The plenary session will be held Wednesday, April 15, at 5:30 p.m. in the San Francisco Marriott Hotel. The search for renewables has become more urgent as people look for alternatives to fossil fuels. As part of the Meeting's WEDNESDAY SPOTLIGHT event, Kohn will discuss the vast and powerful potential of photovoltaics and solar energy for the developing world, including a screening of his spellbinding documentary film, The Power of the Sun. The documentary begins with the findings of Isaac Newton and other early visionaries, moving to the groundbreaking work in 1905 of Albert Einstein on photons, to Bell Laboratories in the 1950s, where the first silicon solar cell was produced.