Panofsky on Physics, Politics, and Peace Pief Remembers /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Editor), Deken, Jean Marie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Particle acceleration.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.

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: "...

Table of Contents:

• School Time in Germany
• Transition to the United States and Undergraduate Life at Princeton University
• Graduate Study and War Work at Caltech
• Work at the University of California Radiation Laboratory
• Military Work at Berkeley and the Loyalty Oath
• Beginnings at Stanford
• Research and Teaching Before SLAC
• Science Advising and Arms Control: The Beginnings
• Establishing SLAC
• Building a Laboratory
• Physics and the Cold War
• Student Unrest at Stanford
• Fixed Target Research at SLAC
• New Facilities—Colliding Beams
• International High Energy Physics
• Advances in Accelerator-Based High-Energy Physics
• Science and Politics After Retirement.