SOLAR: Powering Latin America

Abstract: 

CLAS Chair Harley Shaiken on the influence one innovative scientist had in Latin America.

“Ovshinsky is arguably one of the greatest thinkers and inventors you’ve never heard of. He’s been called his generation’s Thomas Edison and his brilliance compared to that of Albert Einstein.”
– Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian magazine, October 2018

“Stan has allowed us to see the world as it could be.”
— Senator Carl Levin, September 2012

Publication date: 
August 15, 2018
Publication type: 
Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Article