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    Darrieus, Georges Jeans Mary

    Georges Jeans Mary Darrieus (1888-1979), a French engineer who designed the first modern vertical axis wind turbine (patented 1931). Of the several rotors Darrieus designed, the most important is a...

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  • Poul La Cour (1846-1908), a Danish pioneer of modern aerodynamics and electricity-generating wind turbines. La...
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  • Amory B. Lovins (1947-), an American physicist noted for his advocacy of renewable energy and energy efficienc...
  • Albert Betz (1885-1968), a German physicist noted for his path-breaking theoretical studies of wind turbines. ...
  • John OM. Bockris, an Australian electrochemist, coined the term hydrogen economy in the 1970s. Bockri...