and was described as "The best book on solar energy that I know of" by the Whole Earth Catalog's Steve Baer. References External links National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir 1889 births 1972 deaths American Congregationalists 20th-century American engineers American physical chemists Harvard University alumni University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty Manhattan Project people Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty People associated with renewable energy Presidents of the Geochemical Society Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science