Roland Winston
Leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Roland Winston (born March 12, 1936) is a leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics[1] and its applications to solar energy, and is sometimes termed the "father of non-imaging optics".[2][3] He is the inventor of the compound parabolic concentrator(CPC), a breakthrough technology in solar energy. He is also a former Guggenheim Fellow, past head of the University of Chicago Department of Physics, a member of the founding faculty of University of California Merced, and as of 2013, head of the California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute.[4]
He holds more than 25 patents,[3] chiefly related to solar energy, and has been figuratively said to have a "patent on the sun".[5]