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September 1979
ISSN 0031-9228
EISSN 1945-0699
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Solar photovoltaic energy
Physics Today 32 (9), 25–32 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995731
The study conducted for The American Physical Society investigated general systems questions, solar cell technologies and directions for future research.
Pyotr Kapitza, octogenarian dissident
Physics Today 32 (9), 34–41 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995732
Despite years of working under house arrest in his native land, Kapitza has remained the outspoken dean of Soviet science.
Cosmology and elementary‐particle physics
Physics Today 32 (9), 42–48 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995733
The early universe is the poor man's high‐energy physics laboratory; knowledge about its state can be deduced from current observations and can illuminate our knowledge of the fundamental interactions.
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Dynamics of Close Binary Systems; Double Stars; and Interacting Binary Stars
Physics Today 32 (9), 71–72 (1979);
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2995735
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A health sensor powered by sweat
Alex Lopatka
Origami-inspired robot folds into more than 1000 shapes
Jennifer Sieben
Careers by the numbers
Richard J. Fitzgerald