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7.2 ISES Presidents 1970-1979

Roger Morse

Roger Morse (Australia) was born in 1914 and passed away in 2003. He was
educated at the University of Sydney, Australia and gained experience in the
industry before his service with the Australian army in Papua-New Guinea
during World War II. He was responsible for establishing the Engineering
Section — later to become the Division of Mechanical Engineering — of the
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and led
its work on air conditioning, refrigeration, and solar energy applications. He was
Figure 17: Roger Morse, largely responsible for the work that led to the development of the solar water
President 1969-1971 heater industry in Australia. A very practical, hands-on engineer, he could see in
a minute what constituted a good or bad solar heater design. He attended the
AFASES conference in 1955. In 1964, when AFASE became the Solar Energy
Society he became a Board Member. He was Chair of the ISES Solar World
Congress in Melbourne in 1970 and was the first Chair of the first section of the
society, the Australian- New Zealand section, formed in 1962.

Jack A Duffie

Jack Duffie (USA, a chemical engineer by training, established the Solar Energy
Laboratory in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin and was
its Director until he retired in 1988. With Bill Beckman and Sandy Klein, he wrote
a series of books on the engineering of solar processes. He was on the SES
and ISES Boards for many years and served as Editor-in chief-of the ISES Solar
Energy journal for eight years from 1985 until 1993.

Figure 18: Jack Duffie,
President 1971-1973

George Löf

George Oscar Löf (USA) was a chemical engineer and inventor. He graduated
from the University of Denver in 1935 and did his PhD in chemical engineering
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940. Löf became interested
in solar energy at MIT, where he worked under Hoyt C. Hottel. Löf taught
chemical engineering at the University of Colorado and the University of
Denver before serving on the faculty of Colorado State University in the civil
engineering department from 1967 - 1987. He founded the university›s Solar
Figure 19: George Energy Applications Laboratory in 1972. Löf received the Charles Greeley
Oscar Löf, President Abbot Award, given by the American Solar Energy Society in recognition of
1973-1975 contributions in the solar energy field. 1943, Löf designed an early flat-plate
solar heating unit and installed it on the roof of his house in Boulder, Colorado. It
was called the «first solar-heated home» in the United States.

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