Register to watch in person in the Kavli Auditorium, or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page. In particle physics, we search for...
Nathan runs the news center for SLAC, which he joined in 2020 after three years at the Stanford News Service. Before that, he spent...
Head of Creative Communications
(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...
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...
(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...
DIRECTOR EMERITUS
Chi-Chang Kao, a noted X-ray scientist, came to SLAC in 2010 to serve as associate laboratory director for the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. He...
Deputy Director Emeritus
Gregory Loew spent his entire 50-year career at SLAC, starting in 1958 when it was still called “Project M.” He developed the design of...
