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Table 11: Conferences and Meetings 1981-1989
Year Location Overview

Theme: Solar Technology in the Eighties
1,700 participants, and 100 displays
Brighton
1981 Organiser: David Hall. First use of poster papers at a technical
UK
conference.
Farrington Daniels Award: Dr Harry Tabor (Israel)
1,000 participants (60 countries), 560 papers and 87 industry
exhibitors from 15 countries
Conference Chair: Wal Read
Perth
1983 Farrington Daniels Award: Dr Peter E. Glaser (USA)
Australia
The first Christopher Weeks Achievement Award went to the
Solar Energy Lab University of Madison, USA (Jack Duffie and
Bill Beckman)
Intersol 85
1,100 participants
Montreal Chair of Organising Committee: Gilles Gloutier
1985
Canada Farrington Daniels Award: Prof. Georg O. Löf (USA)
Christopher Weeks Achievement Award: Solar Energy Unit,
Cardiff, Wales, UK (Brian Brinkworth)
Theme: Advances in Solar Energy Technology
1,700 participants (54 countries), 900 accepted papers, large
Hamburg exhibition
1987
Germany Farrington Daniels Award: Professor Jack Duffie (USA)
Christopher Weeks Achievement Award: Solar Energy
Applications, Colorado University) Bill Duffy and Terry Lenz)

Theme: Clean and Safe Energy Forever
700 participants (54 countries), 450 Verbal presentations and
150 Posters.
Solar car and solar boat display with first Japanese Solar Boat
1989 Kobe Race being held.
Japan Conference Chair: Dr T Noguchi
Farrington Daniels Award: Professor John Page (UK)
Christopher Weeks Achievement Award: The Solar Thermal
Engineering Centre, University of Waterloo (Canada) and LUZ
Industries (Jerusalem)

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