Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1997 April 11 and May 2.

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Oral history interview with Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, 1997 April 11 and May 2.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83622746

Discuss physics from original SLAC program, Deep Inelastic Electron Scattering experiments and bubble chamber work. Nobel Prize for physicists of Electron Scattering. Colliding beam experiments, and Nobel Prize for physicists of J/psi and tau discoveries. Single Pass Collider as a way to the future. Management style of Panofsky. Arms Control activities before, during, and after being Director of SLAC. President's Science Advisory Committee. Negotiations with physicists from USSR. Involvement with Superconducting Super Collider after retirement from SLAC.

Sound recordings: 4 sound cassettes (ca. 4.0 hrs.), 2 sessions.Transcript: 54 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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