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Glaser, Peter E. (Peter Edward), 1923-2014

LC control no.n 83829279
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Personal name headingGlaser, Peter E. (Peter Edward), 1923-2014
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Variant(s)Glaser, Peter Edward, 1923-
Glaser, P. E. (Peter Edward), 1923-2014
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date19230905
Death date20140529
Place of birthŽatec (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
Place of deathLexington (Mass.)
Field of activitySatellite solar power stations
AffiliationArthur D. Little, Inc.
Profession or occupationMechanical engineers
Found inLCCN 64-19979: His Thermal imaging techniques, 1964 (hdg.: Glaser, Peter Edward, 1923- ; usage: Peter E. Glaser)
LC data base 2-1-84 (hdg.: Glaser, Peter Edward, 1923- ; usage: Peter E. Glaser)
Solar power satellites, 1992: CIP t.p. (P.E. Glaser, vice president, Arthur D. Little Inc., USA)
New York times (online), viewed June 6, 2014 (in obituary published June 5: Peter Glaser; Peter Edward Glaser; b. Sept. 5, 1923, Zatec, Czechoslovakia; fled to England with his family in the late 1930s; immigrated to the U.S., 1948; d. May 29, Lexington, Mass., aged 90; in the late 1960s envisioned a way to harness limitless solar power in space and transmit it for use on Earth via invisible microwaves, a notion so intriguing that the government spent $20 million studying it, only to conclude that it was too complex and expensive)
Associated languageeng