Book Review – Panofsky on Physics, Politics, and Peace: Pief Remembers
by Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky and Sean Marie Deken, Springer, 2007.
The following sections are included:
Introduction: Genesis of the Book
Nature and Nurture: Pief's Early Life
This Review
High School in Hamburg; University at Princeton and Caltech
Pief and the Bomb
Accelerators and Physics at UCRL
Events Leading up to the Loyalty Oath
Stanford, the Microwave Lab and HEPL
The Rise of SLAC
Building SLAC
Physics Research at SLAC in the First Ten Years
Other Accelerator Activities under Pief
Science Advising and International Science
Arms Control (1981–2007): The Unfinished Business