Background
Panofsky, Wolfgang Kurt Hermann was born on April 24, 1919 in Berlin, Germany. Arrived in the United States, 1934, naturalized, 1942. Son of Erwin and Dorothea (Mosse) Panofsky.
Panofsky, Wolfgang Kurt Hermann was born on April 24, 1919 in Berlin, Germany. Arrived in the United States, 1934, naturalized, 1942. Son of Erwin and Dorothea (Mosse) Panofsky.
AB, Princeton University, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1942. Doctor of Science (honorary), Case Institute of Technology, 1963.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Saskatchewan, 1964. Doctor of Science (honorary), Columbia University, 1977. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Hamburg, Germany, 1984.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Princeton University, 1983. Doctor of Science (honorary), Yale University, 1985. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Beijing, 1987.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Rome, 1988. Degree (honorary), Uppsala University, Sweden, 1991.
Member staff member radiation laboratory, University of California, 1945-1951;
assistant professor, University of California, 1946-1948;
associate professor, University of California, 1948-1951;
professor physics, Stanford University, 1951-1962;
professor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, 1962-1989;
professor emeritus, Stanford University, since 1989;
director, Stanford (High Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), 1962-1984;
director emeritus, Stanford (High Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), since 1984. American delegate Conference Cessation Nuclear Tests, Geneva, 1959. Member President's Science Advisory Committee, 19600-65l consultant Office Science and Technology, Executive OfficePres., 1965-1973, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1968-1981.
Member general advising committee to White House, 1977-1981. Member panel Office Science and Technology Policy, 1977. With national.def. research California Institute Technology and Los Alamos, 1942-1945.
Member JASON, since 1965. Chairman of the Board overseers Superconducting Supercollider Universities Research Association, 1984-1993. Member commission to provide interim oversight Department Energy nuclear weapons complex NAS, 1988-1989.
Member panel on nuclear materials control Department Energy, 1991-1992. Member Commision on Particles and Field of International Union Pure and Applied Physics, 1985-1993.
Fellow: American Physical Society (president 1974). Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Academy of Sciences (member committee on international security and arms control since 1985, chairman committee 1985-1993, member science committee on scholarly communications with China 1987-1992), Chinese Academy of Sciences (foreign), National Academy Lincei (Italy), Russian Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences (foreign), American Philosophical Society (president 1974-1975), Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Adele Du Mond, July 21, 1942. Children: Richard, Margaret, Edward, Carol, Steven.