Updated at February 9, 2023 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Maria Telkes |
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Birthdate | December 12, 1900 |
Birth Place | Hungary |
Age (in 2023) | 122 Years Old |
Zodiac | Sagittarius |
Occupation | Physicist |
Maria Telkes is best known as Physicist who has born on December 12, 1900 in Hungary. Currently, Maria Telkes is 122 years, 1 months and 28 days old. Maria Telkes will celebrate 123rd birthday on Tuesday, 12th of December 2023. Below the countdown to Maria Telkes upcoming birthday.
Notable for her work in the field of solar energy, this prominent scientist invented the thermoelectric generator; the debut solar heat system; and a thermoelectricity-operated refrigerator.
After completing her doctorate in physical chemistry in her native Hungary, she relocated to the United States and conducted research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She was the 1952 recipient of the Society of Women Engineers Award and the 1977 winner of the American Solar Energy Society's Charles Greeley Abbot Award.
A native of Hungary, she settled in Boston, Massachusetts, during her early adulthood years and later lived and worked in Texas.
She and Farrington Daniels were both pioneers in the field of solar energy.
Maria Telkes is 122 years old today.
Maria Telkes was born on December 12, 1900 in Hungary.
Maria Telkes zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
Maria Telkes was best known as Physicist.
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Below are historical events that coincided with Maria Telkes's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1964 | Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya. |
1969 | Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. |
1979 | Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung-hee. |
1979 | President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam. |
1979 | The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia. |
1979 | The 8.2 Mw Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300-600, and generating a large tsunami. |
1983 | The Australian Labor government led by Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Treasurer Paul Keating floats the Australian dollar. |
1984 | Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'état against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter is attending a summit. |
1985 | Arrow Air Flight 1285, a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing all 256 people on board, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division. |
1988 | The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom. |
1991 | The Russian Federation withdraws from the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR. |
2000 | The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore. |
2001 | Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng nature reserve to a national park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps. |
2012 | North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket. |
2015 | Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted. |
1985 | The birth of Pat Calathes, Greek-American basketball player |
1985 | The birth of Giannis Zaradoukas, Greek footballer |
1986 | The birth of Daddy Birori, Rwandan footballer |
1986 | The birth of Përparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer |
1986 | The birth of Nina Kolarič, Slovenian long jumper |
1986 | The birth of T. J. Ward, American football player |
1987 | The birth of Marte Eberson, Norwegian keyboard player and composer |
1988 | The birth of Isaac John, New Zealand rugby league player |
1988 | The birth of Tony Williams, Australian-Tongan rugby league player |
1990 | The birth of Nixon Chepseba, Kenyan runner |
1990 | The birth of Victor Moses, Nigerian footballer |
1990 | The birth of Seungri, South Korean singer-songwriter |
1991 | The birth of Joseph Leilua, Australian-Samoan rugby league player |
1993 | The birth of Zeli Ismail, English footballer |
1994 | The birth of Otto Warmbier, American student imprisoned in North Korea (d. 2017) |
2013 | The death of Abdul Quader Molla, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1948) |
2013 | The death of Leo Sachs, German-Israeli biologist and academic (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Jang Sung-taek, North Korean general and politician (b. 1946) |
2013 | The death of Audrey Totter, American actress (b. 1917) |
2014 | The death of Norman Bridwell, American author and illustrator, created Clifford the Big Red Dog (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Ivor Grattan-Guinness, English mathematician, historian, and academic (b. 1941) |
2014 | The death of Herb Plews, American baseball player (b. 1928) |
2014 | The death of Yury Shutov, Russian politician (b. 1946) |
2015 | The death of Luis Bermejo, Spanish illustrator (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Frans Geurtsen, Dutch footballer (b. 1942) |
2015 | The death of Sharad Anantrao Joshi, Indian farmer and politician (b. 1935) |
2015 | The death of Evelyn S. Lieberman, American politician, White House Deputy Chief of Staff (b. 1944) |
2016 | The death of Shirley Hazzard, Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1931) |
2017 | The death of Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1952) |
2017 | The death of Pat DiNizio, American singer and songwriter (b. 1955) |
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