Roland Winston

Roland Winston (February 12, 1936 – February 8, 2025) was an American scientist who was a leading figure in the field of nonimaging optics and its applications to solar energy, and is sometimes termed the "father of non-imaging optics". He was the inventor of the compound parabolic concentrator (CPC), a breakthrough technology in solar energy. He was also a former Guggenheim Fellow, past head of the University of Chicago Department of Physics, a member of the founding faculty of University of California Merced. He was nominated as head of the California Advanced Solar Technologies Institute in 2013.

Winston held more than 25 patents, chiefly related to solar energy, and has been figuratively said to have a "patent on the sun". Provided by Wikipedia