Wolfgang Panofsky
Wolfgang Panofsky · Science & Medicine
Physicist; particle accelerators and arms control
1919, Berlin, Germany — 2007, Los Altos, California, United States
Germany · United States
Wolfgang Panofsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; particle accelerators and arms control
Wolfgang 'Pief' Panofsky was a German-American physicist, son of the art historian Erwin Panofsky, who became a leading designer and builder of particle accelerators and the founding director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). His experimental work underpinned major advances in particle physics, and he was a prominent voice for nuclear arms control. His family was Jewish and fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
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Physicist; particle accelerators and arms control
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
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