William W. "Bill" Ash, 1941-1994
Physicist, Beam Line Editor
Professional and Biographical Information
- William Ash, 1941-1994 SLAC Beam
Line, Spring 1994, page 45
"ON MARCH 6 BILL ASH, editor of the Beam
Line from 1982 to 1985, died afer a brief,
intense struggle with cancer. SLAC will sorely
miss his wit and warmth.... The last article he contributed
to the Beam Line, "SLD Prepares for Physics,"
appeared in the 1990 Fall/Winter issue.
Bill Ash headed the group that built the
superconducting final focus for the SLD,
having earlier managed the contract with the
Japanese firm that supplied the solenoidal
magnet coil for this detector. He came to SLAC
in 1972 to work on a polarized target for
electron scattering experiments in End
Station A. In 1976 he joined the group that
built and ran the MAC detector at the PEP
storage ring. His last project was the leadership
of the SLD Vertex Detector Upgrade."
- Bill Ash
memorial on SLAC site
Publications
- Bill Ash's scientific papers can be accessed from Google Scholar and from
InSPIRE
HEP.
- Bill Ash's popular science writing for SLAC newsletters and the Beam Line Quarterly can be accessed
here.
Archival Materials
Bill Ash papers held by the SLAC Archives, History & Records Office are
currently being processed, and are not yet open for research. SLAC staff may access descriptions of his papers by
clicking this link and entering his last name in the search box at the upper right on that
page.
Note: Some links on this page open pdf
files, which require the free Acrobat
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