Coincidentally, two women, engineer Mária Telkes and architect Eleanor Raymond, are also credited with creating the first ...

In 1964, chemical engineer and inventor Mária Telkes spoke to an audience of other women in the sciences. She made a strong case for why they—and solar energy—were the future.

Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues, she persevered to design the first successfully solar-heated ...