Pauls Stradiņš Jr. (born 1963) is a physicist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.[1][2][3]

Pauls Stradiņš Jr
Born1963 (age 60–61)
NationalityAmerican
Known forPioneering work on silicon, photovoltaics, and renewable energy
Awardsforeign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences; U.S. patents 8,239,165; 7,601,215; 8,389,422; 8,466,447; 8,569,708

Currently he is the principal scientist and a project leader of the silicon photovoltaics group at NREL.[4] He leads a team that recently theorized that defects in photovoltaic cells could actually improve the performance of those cells.[5]

He is the grandson of Pauls Stradiņš (17 January 1896 – 14 August 1958), a Latvian professor, physician, and surgeon[6] who founded the Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga and whose image appears on a Latvian postage stamp and for whom hospitals and medical schools were named.

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  1. ^ NREL profile for Paul Stradins, NREL Principal Scientist
  2. ^ NREL Theorizes Defects Could Improve Solar Cells: January 12, 2016
  3. ^ Paul Stradins profile page for Department of Physics at Colorado School of Mines
  4. ^ Stradins, P., and Kondo, M., Staebler-Wronski Effect: Physics and Relevance to Devices, pp. 220-243 In Kolobov, A. V. Photo-Induced Metastability in Amorphous Semiconductors. Page xxiv shows mailing address of Stradins in List of Contributors
  5. ^ NREL Theorizes Defects Could Improve Solar Cells: January 12, 2016
  6. ^ "Pauls Stradiņš". Pauls Stradiņš Clinical University Hospital. Archived from the original on 2009-05-26. Retrieved 2009-12-19.

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