Abstract
Brenda Carter (The Hon. Mrs B. R. Carter) who died suddenly in February aged 80, was widely recognised throughout the solar community as a pioneer and authority in the field of solar heated swimming pools. Her interest in solar energy goes back to the mid-1950s, when the fledgling Association for Applied Solar Energy (now the lnternational Solar Energy Society) was formed by a few enthusiasts who organised two conferences in 1955 in Arizona, one of which was the first world solar symposium and exhibition. She knew most of the world's leading authorities and my earliest memory of her work dates back to the 1960s, when the late Professor Harold Heywood (who helped to guide the scientific side of her early experiments) invited me to visit her solar systems. Her early publications were widely cited. For example, Dr Mary Archer writing in Sun at Work in Britain, Number 1, July 1974, noted:
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