Autor: Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

Wolfgang K.H. „Pief“ Panofsky, a German-American physicist received his bachelor“s degree from Princeton University in 1938 and obtained his Ph D from Caltech in 1942. In the years 1945-1951, Panofsky held an assistant professorship at Berkeley, before permanently establishing himself as a Professor of Physics at Stanford. Between 1961 and 1984, he was the director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.