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September 1993

Volume 46, Issue 9

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Photovoltaics: Unlimited Electrical Energy from the Sun

Jack L. Stone
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Bulk electrical power generation using the available solar energy of a kilowatt per square meter will occur when photovoltaic cells decline in price below 10 cents per kilowatt‐hour.

Boltzmann's Entropy and Time's Arrow

Joel L. Lebowitz
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Given that microscopic physical lows are reversible, why do all macroscopic events have a preferred time direction? Boltzmann's thoughts on this question have withstood the test of time.

The 1993 International Physics Olympiad

Barbara Goss Levi and Arthur Eisenkraft
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United by a common interest in physics, high school students from around the world came to Williamsburg, Virginia, for a week of exams, tours and social activities.
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A Pair of Planets at a Pulsar's Periphery

Bohdan Paczyński and Anneila Sargent
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Surface Screening: No Superficial Matters

Wayne M. Saslow
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What Really Keeps Women from Physics?

John L. Wallace, Janis Cortese, Suzanne Hidi, Paul J. Drallos, Kristin Natvig Swenson, Crystal A. Barker, David Ingham, Mary H. Fehrs, and Roman Czujko
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Is Africa Ignored in ‘International Science’?

Laurence Lavelle
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Earthquake Yields First Real Evidence of Remote Triggering

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Stirring Things Up in Waste Tank at Hanford

Barbara Goss Levi
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Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb

William Lanouette, Bela Szilard, and Hans Bethe, Reviewer
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Bad Science: The Short Life and Very Hard Times of Cold Fusion

Gary Taubes and Peter Bond, Reviewer
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Catching the Light: The Entwined History of Light and Mind

Arthur Zajonc and Sidney Perkowitz, Reviewer
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Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: The Past and the Prospects

D. Fischer and Michael May, Reviewer
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Radiation and Cloud Processes in the Atmosphere

K. N. Liou and Roger Davies, Reviewer
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From C‐Numbers to Q‐Numbers: The Classical Analogy in the History of Quantum Theory

Olivier Darrigol and Arthur B. Komar, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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At April Meeting, APS and AAPT Recognize Outstanding Work

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ASA Honors Blackstock and Collins at Ottawa Meeting

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Medalists Honored by Franklin Institute

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Jogesh C. Pati, Joseph Sucher, and Ching‐Hung Woo
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Paul Kirkpatrick

Albert V. Baez
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Walker Bleakney

George T. Reynolds, Rubby Sherr, Raymond J. Emrich, Thomas Mariner, and Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
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A Board‐Certified Physicist in Radiation Therapy

Arthur L. Robinson
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Bashed for OSTP's Glacial Pace, Gibbons Gets All Four Associates

Irwin Goodwin
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As SSC Faces ‘Live or Die’ Vote, O'Leary Shakes Up Management

Irwin Goodwin
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To Replace AT&T at Sandia, DOE Picks Martin Marietta

Irwin Goodwin
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Could a Silver Lining Lurk in Cloud of University of California Cuts?

William Sweet
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Williams is New Director of Space Telescope Institute

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APS Lectureship Promotes Minorities in Physics

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Fewer Physics Bachelors in 1992, Survey Finds

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AIP Journal Offers Electronic Preprints

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In Brief

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