Ebook: Panofsky on Physics, Politics, and Peace: Pief Remembers
- Tags: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Elementary Particles Quantum Field Theory, Particle Acceleration and Detection Beam Physics
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky is a prominent physicist who has been an active contributor to elementary particle physics, accelerator building, and laboratory administration as well as to international security policy and arms control. This volume is a somewhat unorthodox memoir.
In Panofsky’s words:
"This volume contains an unsystematic account of my past work; it is not intended to be an autobiography in the conventional meaning of the term. It is not even remotely a scholarly description of the momentous developments in which I was able to participate; rather it is a recital of memorable episodes, borrowing from the compulsory preface of facetious British history: ‘History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.’ "
Pief
Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky is a prominent physicist who has been an active contributor to elementary particle physics, accelerator building, and laboratory administration as well as to international security policy and arms control. This volume is a somewhat unorthodox memoir.
In Panofsky’s words:
"This volume contains an unsystematic account of my past work; it is not intended to be an autobiography in the conventional meaning of the term. It is not even remotely a scholarly description of the momentous developments in which I was able to participate; rather it is a recital of memorable episodes, borrowing from the compulsory preface of facetious British history: ‘History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.’ "
Pief
Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky is a prominent physicist who has been an active contributor to elementary particle physics, accelerator building, and laboratory administration as well as to international security policy and arms control. This volume is a somewhat unorthodox memoir.
In Panofsky’s words:
"This volume contains an unsystematic account of my past work; it is not intended to be an autobiography in the conventional meaning of the term. It is not even remotely a scholarly description of the momentous developments in which I was able to participate; rather it is a recital of memorable episodes, borrowing from the compulsory preface of facetious British history: ‘History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.’ "
Pief
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
School Time in Germany....Pages 1-4
Transition to the United States and Undergraduate Life at Princeton University....Pages 5-9
Graduate Study and War Work at Caltech....Pages 10-20
Work at the University of California Radiation Laboratory....Pages 21-38
Military Work at Berkeley and the Loyalty Oath....Pages 39-44
Beginnings at Stanford....Pages 45-51
Research and Teaching Before SLAC....Pages 52-59
Science Advising and Arms Control: The Beginnings....Pages 60-72
Establishing SLAC....Pages 73-83
Building a Laboratory....Pages 84-99
Physics and the Cold War....Pages 100-106
Student Unrest at Stanford....Pages 107-109
Fixed Target Research at SLAC....Pages 110-118
New Facilities—Colliding Beams....Pages 119-127
International High Energy Physics....Pages 128-136
Advances in Accelerator-Based High-Energy Physics....Pages 137-151
Science and Politics After Retirement....Pages 152-164
Back Matter....Pages 165-191
Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky is a prominent physicist who has been an active contributor to elementary particle physics, accelerator building, and laboratory administration as well as to international security policy and arms control. This volume is a somewhat unorthodox memoir.
In Panofsky’s words:
"This volume contains an unsystematic account of my past work; it is not intended to be an autobiography in the conventional meaning of the term. It is not even remotely a scholarly description of the momentous developments in which I was able to participate; rather it is a recital of memorable episodes, borrowing from the compulsory preface of facetious British history: ‘History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.’ "
Pief
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
School Time in Germany....Pages 1-4
Transition to the United States and Undergraduate Life at Princeton University....Pages 5-9
Graduate Study and War Work at Caltech....Pages 10-20
Work at the University of California Radiation Laboratory....Pages 21-38
Military Work at Berkeley and the Loyalty Oath....Pages 39-44
Beginnings at Stanford....Pages 45-51
Research and Teaching Before SLAC....Pages 52-59
Science Advising and Arms Control: The Beginnings....Pages 60-72
Establishing SLAC....Pages 73-83
Building a Laboratory....Pages 84-99
Physics and the Cold War....Pages 100-106
Student Unrest at Stanford....Pages 107-109
Fixed Target Research at SLAC....Pages 110-118
New Facilities—Colliding Beams....Pages 119-127
International High Energy Physics....Pages 128-136
Advances in Accelerator-Based High-Energy Physics....Pages 137-151
Science and Politics After Retirement....Pages 152-164
Back Matter....Pages 165-191
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