Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Oral history interview with Wolfgang Panofsky, 1996 July 11.
Elizabeth Paris interviews Wolfgang Panofsky, Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 1961 to 1984. In this interview, Panofsky discusses the design and construction of particle accelerators and colliders at SLAC, especially the SPEAR (Stanford Positron Electron Accelerating Ring) collider, and his work with Gerard ONeil, Bernard Gittelman, Carl Barber, and Burt Richter. Panofsky describes his influence on science and national security policy as a member of the Presidents Science Advisory Committee, his role in the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and his involvement with the Atomic Energy Commission and the Congressional Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
German-American physicist Wolfgang "Pief" Panofsky (1919-2007) emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and received his Ph.D. from CalTech in 1942. He served as a consultant to the Manhattan Project from 1944 until the end of the war. After, he helf an associate professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, before permanently establishing himself as Professor of Physics at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Gittelman, Bernard, 1932-
O'Neill, Gerard K.
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Richter, Burton, 1931-
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford Positron Electron Accelerator Ring.
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Colliders (Nuclear physics).
National security
Particle accelerators (Nuclear engineering) -- 20th century.
Storage rings
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Paris, Elizabeth, interviewer.
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American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA