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Combines autobiographical information about one of the world's leading physicists with a discussion of relevant science and policy issues
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Panofsky on Physics, Politics and Peace is an autobiographical essay by a remarkable man. In it Wolfgang ‘Pief’ Panofsky relates highlights of his professional life: his accomplishments as a scientist, as a teacher, as the director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC, the great high-energy laboratory he built), and as an adviser to those making science, technology and weapons policy at both the national and the international level." (Silvan S. Schweber, American Scientist, June, 2008)
"The worlds of high-energy physics and international security have been intimately intertwined since WW II, focusing mainly on production, control, and plans for the use of nuclear weapons. Understanding these connections is vital for anyone wishing to understand and participate in the national political scene. Much of that understanding can be obtained from this record of the life of a man … . Valuable for scientists, politicians, citizens, and security analysts. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; lower- and upper-division undergraduates through professionals." (A. M. Saperstein, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (9), 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
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Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Jean Marie Deken
About the editors
Wolfgang K.H. "Pief" Panofsky, a German-American physicist received his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1938 and obtained his PhD from Caltech in 1942. In the years 1945-1951, Panofsky held an assistant professorship at Berkeley, before permanently establishing himself as a Professor of Physics at Stanford. Between 1961 and 1984, he was the director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Panofsky on Physics, Politics, and Peace
Book Subtitle: Pief Remembers
Editors: Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Jean Marie Deken
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69732-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-69731-4Published: 05 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2413-1Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-69732-1Published: 06 August 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 191
Topics: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics