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Swiss Solar Innovator Wins 2010 Millennium Technology Prize

thumbsup.jpgProfessor Michael Gratzel of the Lausanne Federal Technology Institute invented a low-cost solar cell that could be used to build electricity generating windows, and has been awarded this year's Millennium Technology Prize. Gratzel received the €800,000 (967,000 USD) prize at a ceremony in Helsinki, Finland.

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