Martin Green (professor)

Martin Andrew Green AM ForMemRS is an Australian professor at the University of New South Wales who works on solar energy. He is editorinchief of the academic journal Progress in Photovoltaics.

Green was born in Brisbane and was educated at the selective Brisbane State High School, graduated from University of Queensland and completed his PhD on a Commonwealth Scholarship at McMaster University in Canada, where he specialised in solar energy. In 1974, at the University of New South Wales, he initiated the Solar Photovoltaics Group which soon worked on the development of silicon solar cells. The group had their success in the early 80s through producing aefficient silicon cell, which now has been improved to 25.

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