biography
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Panofsky, Wolfgang K(urt) H(ermann)
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Berlin, Germany. He fled the Nazis' anti-Semitic policies in 1934 and entered Princeton. After working on the Manhattan Project (1941–5) he moved to the University of California, Berkeley (1945–51), and then joined Stanford (1951–84) making major contributions to studies of the subatomic particle pion using gamma-ray spectroscopy. He was a government adviser in the 1950s and 1960s and promoted nuclear arms control. |
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