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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN TOUCH OF HOLLYWOOD
WHAT DO HOLLYWOOD AND
NUCLEAR PHYSICS HAVE IN
COMMON?
Harry Hamlin is a film When I went off to college a decade, to help mitigate global
and TV actor and a new in 1970, my ambition climate change by offering one of the
technologies entrepreneur. was to become an only real clean substitutes for fossil
He has received numerous architect but a few wrong turns on fuel.
Golden Globe Award my way to Berkeley caused me to
nominations, including one miss the deadline for enrollment in My journey as the shepherd for
for starring in the epic film the Environmental Design school this technology has both benefited
Clash of the Titans. He has and I opted for the next best thing… and suffered from my Hollywood
appeared on TV in many the Drama Department. I had no connection. On the positive side, I’ve
roles, including L.A. Law, aptitude for math or science because, been able to get just about anyone
where he received two Best according to Malcom Gladwell in his in politics or business to answer
Actor nominations, and Mad best-selling book OUTLIERS, I was the phone…at least once. On the
Men, where he received a destined for a life in the humanities negative side, they always say, “What
Primetime Emmy nomination. because I was born in 1951. Hence, the heck are you, an actor, doing
Harry’s long-held interest in no math and no science for me. talking about advanced nuclear
our climate dilemma coupled physics and why should I listen to
with his knowledge of a The Drama Department at UC you?” That’s never an easy question
technology which represents a Berkeley turned out to be a good to answer and an answer that is
real alternative to greenhouse choice and within a decade, I had rarely accepted. But I always press on
gas producing fossil fuels, led received my first Golden Globe because I know that the world needs
Harry to help co-found TAE nomination for best new actor in a a solution to our climate dilemma and
Technologies. And so physics motion picture for my role in Stanley I know that this technology represents
came to Hollywood… Donen’s MOVIE MOVIE starring a real alternative to greenhouse gas
opposite George C. Scott. From producing fossil fuels.
that moment, fame and a modicum
of fortune lay in my future. Little did I certainly can’t take credit for the
I know, at the time, that I would success of the company but I do
come to co-found one of the most credit my public profile for getting
advanced technology enterprises in the attention, early on, that gave the
the world, what is known today as effort momentum in the beginning.
TAE Technologies. TAE.com For that I am grateful and I doubt
my involvement would have been as
TAE is the world’s most successful, effective had I not had the fame that
privately funded clean Fusion Energy Hollywood granted me.
company. TAE, which is partnered
with Google in its effort to develop
clean, non-radioactive industrial
scale electricity, is poised, within
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