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Greetings Harvard alumni and friends,

 

Join us at the Downtown Club at the Houston Center on Thursday August 17, 2017 from 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., and help us welcome our guest speaker, Professor Daniel G. Nocera, Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University.   Professor Nocera's topic will be 'How can we bring energy to the world's poor?'   Professor Nocera, inventor of the artificial leaf, argues that personalized solar based energy is the key to global sustainable energy consumption.   Scroll down the page for Dr. Nocera's biography, two very interesting videos you are sure to enjoy, and also to register your attendance. Seats to this special evening with Dr. Nocera started selling immediately.  It is a space limited event and seating in the front rows will be assigned on a first- come, first served basis until those seats are gone, then it will be open seating.   The Downtown Club at Houston Center is a beautiful facility with easy secure parking (after hours parking is approximately $5.50).   Your ticket includes heavy gourmet hors d'oeuvres and a full bar 'cocktails.'  We look forward to seeing you next week!

 

 

When:          Thursday August 17, 2017, 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

 

Location:     Downtown Club at the Houston Center

                          1100 Caroline Street
                          Houston, TX 77002

                       

Heavy hors d’oeuvres and cocktails provided.
 

 

TICKETS
$30  -  Harvard Members & All Ivy League alumni Tickets
$30  -   Family membership (same ticket price for all family members)
FREE  -  Supporting Level Memberships
                                       
  (Platinum, Sponsor, Patron & Benefactors)

$50  -  Non-members


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MORE ON PROFESSOR NOCERA
Daniel G. Nocera
 is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University. He is a leading researcher in renewable energy. He accomplished the solar fuels process of photosynthesis–the splitting of water to hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight and translated this science to produce the artificial leaf, which was named by Time magazine as Innovation of the Year for 2011. He has since elaborated this invention to create the bionic leaf, which uses the hydrogen from that artificial leaf and carbon dioxide from air to make biomass and liquid fuels. His bionic leaf, which was named by Scientific American and the World Economic Forum as the Breakthrough Technology for 2017, performs artificial photosynthesis that is ten times more efficient than natural photosynthesis. These science discoveries set a course for the large-scale deployment of solar energy in a distributed fashion, especially for those in the emerging world. His research contributions in renewable energy have been recognized by several awards, some of which include the Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy, Eni Prize, IAPS Award, Burghausen Prize, Elizabeth Wood Award and the United Nation’s Science and Technology Award and from the American Chemical Society the Inorganic Chemistry, Harrison Howe. Kosolapoff and Remsen Awards. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is Editor-in-Chief of Chemical Science and is a frequent guest on TV and radio, and is regularly featured in print. He founded the energy company Sun Catalytix and its technology is now being commercialized by Lockheed Martin.

 

 

Here are two good videos. This one won an award at Sundance Film Festival:
https://vimeo.com/51772014

 

And this one was a Harvard TedX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXBQjhXCydg

 

 


 

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