I missed “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” last week [1]. This turns out to have been unfortunate. Two excellent stories aired that day. The first confirmed a personal belief of mine, and the second opened my eyes wider to the world of science and women. The first story was […]
Daily Archives: September 25, 2007
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It’s collaboration meeting time again. When BaBarians last met in June, it was at SLAC. I split my time between plenary presentations, parallel sessions, chairing sessions, and (of course) hurrying to get the numbers needed to my own research presentations. It’s busy, but fun. This time around, BaBar is largely […]
He founded the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, was a tireless driving force behind the great discoveries of this laboratory, and worked into his last days as an advocate against the testing and use of nuclear weapons. Today, the scientific world has lost another luminary: Pief Panofsky. We all got the […]