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Book Review – Panofsky on Physics, Politics, and Peace: Pief Remembers

    by Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky and Sean Marie Deken, Springer, 2007.

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812835215_0014Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
    Abstract:

    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