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Published on 04/27/1998 All articles from this issue

SLAC director emeritus to talk at LAH Historical Society meeting

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Town Crier Staff Report

The public is invited to hear Dr. Wolfgang Panofsky, physicist and director emeritus of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, speak at the Los Altos Hills Historical Society meeting held at 3 p.m., Sunday, at the Los Altos Hills Town Hall, 26379 Fremont Road, Los Altos Hills.

Panofsky will speak on the history of the center.

A high energy physicist, Panofsky became the center's director in 1961. He studied at both Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., and California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

During World War II, he worked as a consultant at Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

Panofsky went on to the University of California, Berkeley as a researcher and then as an associate professor.

He joined Stanford University's faculty in 1951.

An advisor to several of U.S. presidents, Panofsky has chaired the Committee on International Security and Arms Control of the National Academy of Sciences.

He has authored numerous articles on particle physics and on arms control and disarmament.

The historical society has four programs annually on a wide range of subjects.

For information on membership in the Los Altos Hills Historical Society, call Marty Bernstein at 324-9610 or Cathie Perga at 941-9413.