Panofsky Panofsky on Physics, Politics, and Peace

Pief Remembers
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-69732-1
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 191 Seiten

This book is not only an autobiography of the respected physicist and director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, but a discussion and analysis of issues critical to the relationship between independent academic inquiry and imposed government orthodoxy. The book describes each phase of Dr. Panofsky's career in a way that clarifies the nature of the issues surrounding his work, and explains his chosen course of action.

Wolfgang K.H. 'Pief' Panofsky, a German-American physicist received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1938 and obtained his PhD from Caltech in 1942. In the years 1945-1951, Panofsky held an assistant professorship at Berkeley, before permanently establishing himself as a Professor of Physics at Stanford. Between 1961 and 1984, he was the director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Table of Contents;6
3;School Time in Germany;7
4;Transition to the United States and Undergraduate Life at Princeton University;11
5;Graduate Study and War Work at Caltech;16
6;Work at the University of California Radiation Laboratory;27
7;Military Work at Berkeley and the Loyalty Oath;45
8;Beginnings at Stanford;51
9;Research and Teaching Before SLAC;58
10;Science Advising and Arms Control: The Beginnings;66
11;Establishing SLAC;79
12;Building a Laboratory;90
13;Physics and the Cold War;106
14;Student Unrest at Stanford;113
15;Fixed Target Research at SLAC;116
16;New FacilitiesÛColliding Beams;125
17;International High Energy Physics;134
18;Advances in Accelerator-Based High- Energy Physics;143
19;Science and Politics After Retirement;158
20;Endnotes;171
21;Subject Index;180