Pauls Stradiņš Jr. (born 1963) is a physicist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
[1][2][3] Currently he is the principal scientist and a project leader of the silicon photovoltaics group at NREL.
[4] He leads a team that recently theorized that defects in photovoltaic cells could actually improve the performance of those cells.
[5] He is the grandson of Pauls Stradiņš (17 January 1896 – 14 August 1958), a Latvian professor and physician.
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