I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
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I studied economics and made it my career for two reasons. The subject was and is intellectually fascinating and challenging, particularly to someone with taste and talent for theoretical reasoning and quantitative analysis.
I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.
Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
I was a political science major. I was always interested in social impact.
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
I've spent quite a bit of time working on wind turbines and exploring control systems and photovoltaic and integration system.
I entered economics because of a course I took on 'information economics,' which I found fascinating.
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
I spent more than 20 years of my professional career researching and developing renewable energy sources.
At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.