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Importance of solar science

Fundamental: 

• Sun as an astrophysical laboratory
• Sun-Earth connection

Practical:   

• solar energy utilization
• fusion reactor ITER

Nobel prizes directly related to solar physics

• 1967, H. Bethe, The energy production in the Sun and stars
• 1970, H. Alfvén, Magneto-hydrodynamic waves (in the Sun)
• 2002, R. Davis, Solar neutrinos

Popular articles in solar science

• Die Sonne - unser nächster Stern, J.O. Stenflo, Bulletin ETH Zurich, No. 290, 2003
• Das unsichtbare Universum, P. Grigis & A.O Benz, Bulletin ETH Zurich, No. 290, 2003
• Wasserstoff aus Wasser und Sonnenenergie, A. Meier, C. Wieckert, A. Steinfeld, Bulletin SEV/VSE 24/25, 2005