Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1997 April 11 and May 2.
Discuss physics from original SLAC program, Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering experiments and bubble chamber work. Nobel Prize for physicists of Electron Scattering. Colliding beam experiments, and Nobel Prize for physicists of J/psi and tau discoveries. Single Pass Collider as a way to the future. Management style of Panofsky. Arms Control activities before, during, and after being Director of SLAC. President's Science Advisory Committee. Negotiations with physicists from USSR. Involvement with Superconducting Super Collider after retirement from SLAC.
Professor of physics and director of Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
Bubble chambers.
Colliding beams.
Scattering (Physics).
Nobel Prizes.
Nuclear arms control.
Superconducting Super Collider.
Oral histories. aat
Interviews. aat
Sound recordings lcgft
Transcripts. aat
Physicists -- Soviet Union. lcsh
Lynch, Harvey, interviewer.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA