Director Emerita
In her early years at SLAC, Persis Drell worked on the construction of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. She became SLAC’s deputy director in...
(1919-2007)
Wolfgang K. H. “Pief” Panofsky, a renowned physicist and passionate arms control advocate, was SLAC’s first director. Panofsky pressed the case for basic accelerator...
(1931-2018)
The burst of scientific activity that began with the discovery of the J/psi particle in 1974 is known to particle physicists as the “November...
