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Solar Pioneer and First CRES President
On January 16,
2008, Dr. Harold "Hub" Hubbard died of complications from a stoke
suffered in 2006. Hub, as he was fondly known to all, was the third
and longest reining Director of the Solar Energy Research Institute
(now called the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.) He served
from 1981 until 1990. Among his many accomplishments during his
tenure as head of the lab, perhaps his most distinguished feat was
persuading the Reagan administration to keep the institute alive
despite strong appeals by several presidential advisers to close it
down entirely. Even with the severe budget cuts and layoffs that
ensued, Hub managed to keep SERI afloat and productive throughout
the perilous years of the early 80s. Later, he took the laboratory
to great heights as one of the most relevant scientific institutions
in the country. |
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