| Description |
1 online resource (approximately 200 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. School Time in Germany -- 2. Transition to the United States and Undergraduate Life at Princeton University -- 3. Graduate Study and War Work at Caltech -- 4. Work at the University of California Radiation Laboratory -- 5. Military Work at Berkeley and the Loyalty Oath -- 6. Beginnings at Stanford -- 7. Research and Teaching Before SLAC -- 8. Science Advising and Arms Control: The Beginnings -- 9. Establishing SLAC -- 10. Building a Laboratory -- 11. Physics and the Cold War -- 12. Student Unrest at Stanford -- 13. Fixed Target Research at SLAC -- 14. New Facilities -- Colliding Beams -- 15. International High Energy Physics -- 16. Advances in Accelerator-Based High-Energy Physics -- 17. Science and Politics After Retirement |
| Summary |
The Life and Times of W.K.H. Panofsky is not only an autobiography of the respected physicist and director of the Stanford Linear Accelorator Center, but a discussion and analysis of issues critical to the relationship between independent academic inquiry and imposed government orthodoxy. The major phases of Dr. Panofsky's life are discussed chronologically, from his early research at the beginning of World War II, to his work as director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to his recent efforts towards arms control and the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. The book describes each pha |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007.
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| SUBJECT |
Panofsky, Wolfgang K. H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007 fast |
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Physicists -- United States -- Biography
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Physics -- Political aspects
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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Physique.
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Physicists
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Deken, Jean
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| LC no. |
2007927311 |
| ISBN |
9780387697321 |
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0387697322 |
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9780387697314 |
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0387697314 |
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1280969598 |
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9781280969591 |
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9786610969593 |
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6610969590 |
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