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Press Release

Arthur Bienenstock Named Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy

The White House has announced the intent to nominate Arthur Bienenstock to the post of Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Bienenstock is Director of the  Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, a division of the  Stanford...
September 25, 1997
News Feature · VIA Stanford Magazine

The Making of Project M

Forty years ago,Wolfgang Panofsky dreamed up the largest, most expensive piece of machinery ever used in experimental physics. Today we call it SLAC.

May 1, 1997
Project M article on front page of Stanford Daily newspaper in 1960