Scientist Mária Telkes spent her life chasing the sun. Telkes, who was born in Hungary in 1900, first became interested in solar energy while studying at the University of Budapest. After ...

Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes illuminated the field of solar energy. She invented a solar oven, a solar desalination kit and, in the late 1940s, designed one of the ...

Pioneering Hungarian-American physicist Maria Telkes, an early champion of the possibilities of solar energy, is being remembered on the 122nd anniversary of her birth and the 70th anniversary of ...

Mária Telkes and her solar still. January 1952. “The problem of solar energy,” explained Telkes, “is storage.” Her solution was a chemical compound that could store solar-generated energy.

Google has replaced its homepage logo with an animated Doodle in honor of prolific solar energy scientist Mária Telkes, nicknamed “The Sun Queen.” Mária Telkes was born in Budapest, Hungary ...

Eleanor Raymond and Maria Telkes pioneered solar-heated homes in Massachusetts in 1948.

Mária Telkes came to the U.S. in 1932 with a driving ambition: to invent ways to harness and store the power of the sun.

Google is celebrating the life and work of Dr. Mária Telkes -- a pioneer of solar energy.

Mária Telkes at the Dover Sun House in February 1949. Telkes is the subject of the documentary, “The Sun Queen.” (Courtesy of Ralph Morse/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock) Andrew ...

Maria Telkes was a pioneer in harnessing solar power for practical purposes. Two of her most notable inventions were the solar distiller and the first solar-powered heating systems.