W. K. H. "Pief" Panofsky, 1919 - 2007

SLAC Professor and Director Emeritus

Panofsky Symposium

Stanford University, April 10, 2008

Professional and Biographical Information

• A Brief Biography of Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
• W. K. H. Panofsky Wikipedia entry
• Obituary, the guardian, 27 September 2007
• Obituary, Boston Globe, 28 September 2007
• Education
• Career
• Research Interests
• Awards and Honors
• Activities
• Personal Data
• Panofsky Prize (APS)
• Panofsky Fellowship (SLAC)
• Pief Stories
• ...Submit your Pief story...

Events and Photos

• W. K. H. Panofsky: 1919-2007, A Symposium Celebrating Pief. April 10, 2008, Stanford University
• Staff Memorial for Dr. Panofsky, September 28, 2007 (streaming video)
• Nuclear Weapons: Security or Insecurity? SLAC Colloquium, March 21, 2007 (video and pdf of presentation)
• 1984 Pief-Fest, The SLAC Summer Institute on Particle Physics: The Sixth Quark (Published as SLAC-R-281)
  • Pief by Sidney Drell.
  • Science and Technology Policies for the 1980s by F. Press.
  • Inclusive Lepton-Hadron Experiments by J. Steinberger.
  • Forty-Five Years of e+e- Annihilation Physics: 1956 to 2001 by B. Richter.
  • We Need More Piefs by J. Wiesner.
• Panofsky Auditorium Dedication, May 5, 1999 (photos).
• San Francisco Exploratorium Lifetime Achievement Award , April 30, 2003.
• Pief Panofsky's 85th birthday (2004)
• Chinese Lion Dance honors Panofsky on 86th birthday (2005) article, photos
• W. K. H. Panofsky, Director Emeritus (SLAC Director's Office web page)
• Other Panofsky photo descriptions and thumbnails may be located by searching on
  • keyword = Panofsky on the Historical Photographs Index
  • search term "Panofsky" on the Interactions.org Image Bank

Panofsky Non-technical publications

• Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky on Physics, Politics and Peace: Pief Remembers. W. K. H. Panofsky (Author), Jean Marie Deken (Contributing Editor). New York: Springer, 2007.
• The construction of SLAC and the Role of R. B. Neal. Proceedings of the Symposium on Electron Linear Accelerators in Honor of Richard B. Neal's 80th Birthday. September 5, 1997. (Published as SLAC-R-526)
• The evolution of particle accelerators and Colliders. Beamline Spring 1997.
• Sid Drell and Defense Policy (Presentation for Drell Symposium, July 31, 1998)
• Panofsky, W. K. H. An Informal History of SLAC Part Two: The Evolution of SLAC and Its Program. SLAC Beam Line Special Issue Number 3, May 1983.
• Panofsky, W. K. H. Big Physics and Small Physics at Stanford. Stanford Historical Society, Sandstone and Tile Volume 14, no. 3 (Summer 1990) p. 1-10.

Panofsky Technical publications

For a list of Professor Panofsky's Technical Publications, please go to SPIRES HEP.

Publications about Panofsky

• Jackson, John David. Panofsky agonistes: the 1950 loyalty oath at Berkeley. Physics Today. January 2009. p. 41-47

Archival Materials

The Panofsky Papers held by the SLAC Archives and History Office are currently being processed, and are not yet open for research. SLAC staff may access descriptions of the Panofsky Papers held by the SLAC Archives, from the archives' Collections Index via a search on "Panofsky" under the Title/Desc category.

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