Pauls Stradiņš Jr. (born 1963) is a physicist at the

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, and a foreign member of the

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. 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

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n professor,

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, and

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who founded the Museum of the History of Medicine in

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and whose image appears on a Latvian postage stamp and for whom hospitals and medical schools were named.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stradiņš, Pauls, Jr 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

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