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 news at SLAC this morning from our interim Director. Pief suffered a heart attack and died, having given this world many decades of his scientific vision. It will be very strange indeed to walk past his Director Emeritus office, and know that he isn’t sitting in there; very difficult to never see him coming in the side entrance of Central Lab, or sitting in the front row of the colloquium, or working to warn a deafening world about the silence-shattering horror of nuclear weapons. He will be so very missed.
