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Panofsky on Physics, Politics, and Peace Pief Remembers /

Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky is a prominent physicist who has been an active contributor to elementary particle physics, accelerator building, and laboratory administration as well as to international security policy and arms control. This volume is a somewhat unorthodox memoir. In Panofsky's words:...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Panofsky, Wolfgang K.H (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • School Time in Germany
  • Transition to the United States and Undergraduate Life at Princeton University
  • Graduate Study and War Work at Caltech
  • Work at the University of California Radiation Laboratory
  • Military Work at Berkeley and the Loyalty Oath
  • Beginnings at Stanford
  • Research and Teaching Before SLAC
  • Science Advising and Arms Control: The Beginnings
  • Establishing SLAC
  • Building a Laboratory
  • Physics and the Cold War
  • Student Unrest at Stanford
  • Fixed Target Research at SLAC
  • New Facilities-Colliding Beams
  • International High Energy Physics
  • Advances in Accelerator-Based High-Energy Physics
  • Science and Politics After Retirement.