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Portrait of Paul McIntyre, associate lab director, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) Directorate

Portrait of Lisa Bonetti, Interim Associate Lab Director, Technology Innovation Directorate

(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...

Portrait of W. K. H. Panofsky at SLAC taken by Leo Holub 1984.

News Release

Physicist Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, known affectionately to most as "Pief," spent more than five decades at Stanford in enthusiastic pursuit of some of...

Feature

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

Project M article on front page of Stanford Daily newspaper in 1960

(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...

News Brief

Jonathan Dorfan, who has served as the director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) for nearly eight years, has announced he will step...

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...

News Brief

Bernhard Mistlberger will receive the APS's 2023 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics for his work on precision Standard Model calculations.

Paul McIntyre

Lisa Bonetti

Saurabh Anand

Lydia Young

Wolfgang (Pief) K. H. Panofsky

Physicist, SLAC founding director Wolfgang Panofsky is dead at 88

The Making of Project M

Burton Richter

Dorfan to step down as SLAC director after nearly 8 years

Gregory A. Loew

SLAC physicist wins American Physical Society early career award

Rich Poliak