Number 25 (Story #5), March, 14 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein CHARLES PETIT of the San Francisco Chronicle has won the 1991 AIP Science Writing Award to a journalist for his article, "Vanishingly Close to Absolute Zero," about research in the microkelvin regime (see Physics News Update 17, Jan. 17, 1991). Petit's article appeared in the Winter 1990/91 issue of Mosaic magazine.