
Chapter 10
The IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists
Conference*
Americo F. (Moe) Forestieri
NASA, Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
This collection of names, facts, data, anecdotes, and memories is
my feeble attempt at documenting the history and growth of the
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference. I began this effort about two
years ago when I decided that much of the information on how
this conference has grown over the past years was beginning to
disappear.
10.1 Brief History of the US IEEE PVSC and the
William R. Cherry Committee
At the beginning of the 1960s, a large number of organizations
under the Department of Defense and NASA were carrying out