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Table 6: Conferences and Meetings 1965-1968
Year Location Overview

Phoenix Annual Meeting of SES
1965
USA Approx. 50 papers, 110 in attendance
Boston Second Annual meeting SES conference Approx. 43
1966
USA papers

Tempe Industrial Aspects of Solar Energy
1967 General Chair: Peter E. Glaser
USA Approx. 100 in Attendance.
Palo Alto 4 Annual Meeting of SES
th
1968
USA General; Chair” W.B. Gibson
6.2 SES Presidents 1964-1969

Farrington Daniels

Figure 9: Farrington Daniels, President 1964-1967

Farrington Daniels (USA) was the first president of the Solar Energy Society elected by the membership.
His name is given to the most prestigious award given by ISES at every Solar World Congresses (SWC), the
Farrington Daniels Award for outstanding intellectual leadership in the field of solar energy. Daniels was born
in 1889 and died in 1972. He was a physical chemist and is considered one of the pioneers of the modern-day
use of solar energy. He joined the University of Wisconsin as an assistant professor in 1920 and remained as
chairman of the chemistry department until his retirement in 1959. Daniels became a leading international
expert on the principals involved with the practical utilization of solar energy. He pursued an understanding
of the heat and the convection as well as the electrical energy that can be derived from the sun. In 1952,
Farrington Daniels met Henry Sargent and suggested to him that there was a need for an organization to
promote the development and application of solar energy. Two years later, Sargent, with Walter Bimson and
Frank Snell, organised the Association for Applied Solar Energy, AFASE. During these early years, Farrington
Daniels built many relationships across the small but growing international solar energy research world.

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