Pauls Stradiņš Jr
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.

Currently he is the principal scientist and a project leader of the silicon photovoltaics group at NREL.  He leads a team that recently theorized that defects in photovoltaic cells could actually improve the performance of those cells.

He is the grandson of Pauls Stradiņš (17 January 1896 – 14 August 1958), a Latvian professor, physician, and surgeon who founded the Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga and whose image appears on a Latvian postage stamp and for whom hospitals and medical schools were named.

See also
 National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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1963 births
Living people
American people of Latvian descent
Silicon photonics
21st-century American physicists
Latvian physicists
Latvian inventors
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
21st-century American inventors