Maria Telkes and the Solar Oven

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Mária Telkes was preceded by the 17th, 18th, and 19th-century scientists: Katherine Boyle, Lady Ranelagh (1615–1691) in England; chemist Marie Anne Paulze (1758–1836), known as Mme. Lavoisier in France; Italian Lucia Galeazzi Galvani (1743–1788); and Russian Julia Lermontova (1847–1919), a pioneer of the periodic table. She was also part of the lineage of scientists originating with Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867–1934), co-discoverer of radioactivity, Polonium, and Radium, and recipient of two Nobel Prizes: Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911.

Some contemporaries were the French scientists: Irene Joliot-Curie (1897–1956), who, along with her husband, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for discovering induced radioactivity and artificial radioactivity; Marguerite Perey (1909–1975), assistant and close collaborator of Marie Curie, who discovered Francium while purifying lanthanum samples containing actinium; Samira Musa (1917–1952), an Egyptian scientist who worked to make the medical use of nuclear technology affordable for everyone; Ida Noddack (1896–1978), a German chemical engineer who co-discovered Rhenium in 1925 and was the first to propose the idea of nuclear fission; Lise Meitner (1878–1968), an Austrian physicist who co-discovered Protactinium and nuclear fission; the German Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972), winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on the nuclear shell model; Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997), a Chinese-born American physicist who experimentally demonstrated the hypothesis of parity violation in weak nuclear interactions; Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), a British chemist and crystallographer whose work was fundamental to understanding the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite; English engineer, mathematician, and physicist Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), a close friend of Marie Curie; nuclear chemist Marietta Blau (1894–1970); mathematicians Emmy Noether (1882–1935) and Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973); and electrical engineer Edith Clarke (1883–1959), author of Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems, a reference textbook in energy engineering.

Among the current scientists is the Egyptian researcher Shaimaa Omran. She aims to develop an evaluation strategy for photovoltaic solar penetration in distribution networks using evolutionary artificial intelligence algorithms, among other mechanisms. She also works on advancing the application of renewable energies, an idea inspired by Mária Telkes.

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Creating a Solar Oven with a Pizza Box
This activity develops the following specific competencies: CE1, CE2, CE4, and CE6.

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