Talk:Pief Panofsky

Panofsky Lane
"A street in the area of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, is named 'Panofsky Lane'."

Panofsky Lane is doubtless named for Erwin Panofsky, perhaps the Institute's most distinguished permanent member in the humanities.

Jewish?
Are you sure he is Jewish? Does anyone have any reference on that? For now I am going to remove that edit. --Kramer 03:29, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Nevermind: http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-panofsky27sep27,0,6478130.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california -Kramer 03:33, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Pief Panofsky and family were/are definitely Jewish; his father Erwin Panofsky moved his family to Princeton from Germany to escape the Nazis, who murdered some of their relatives. (I don't have citations right at hand, but he was my uncle-in-law, and I have seen a hand-drawn family genealogy.) Acwilson9 (talk) 00:38, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
 * FYI: Richard Wilson (physicist) (my father) and Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky worked together (amicably, I believe) at Stanford 1951-1952, and were married for life to two sisters, Andrée Désirée Wilson (my mother) and Adèle Irène Panofsky, the two daughters of Caltech physicist Jesse M? DuMond and Blanche Irène DuMond (nee Gaebel, later Orsini). By 1970 the professional relationship of the two brothers-in-law was strained.  Because they are my family and I myself do not have a NPOV about them, I myself will not add any of this info to any WP article. Acwilson9 (talk) 18:40, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

dead link for Wolfgang "Pief" Panofsky
Below, 5th link is dead, and 4th link is excellent.

"External links

* Obituary in the The New York Times * Obituary in The Times, 2 October 2007 * W.K.H. Panofsky's SLAC web page * SLAC Nobel  [THIS LINK HAD LOTS OF USEFUL INFO.] * Interview with Dr. Panofsky (PDF) [THIS LINK IS DEAD.] * Peace talk: My life negotiating science and policy by W. K. H. Panofsky (PDF) * A 1998 comment entitled "Mixed message", by Dr. Panofsky * Dr. Panofsky's wife "Adele Panofsky", reconstructs the Paleoparadoxia bones found at SLAC" —Preceding unsigned comment added by ACWilsonACWilson (talk • contribs) 22:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Fixed Dead Link
And also removed 4th link. That page refers to SLAC nobel laureates, which although is very interesting, doesn't really directly relate to Professor Panofsky. I also removed the link about Adele's paleontology, which also doesn't directly pertain to Professor Panofsky. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kramer (talk • contribs) 05:50, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

External link to interview on nuclear policy?
Would an interview with Wolfgang Panofsky from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F78777BF53A64C7DA0B0DE459444E789 (I helped with the site, so it would be conflict of interest for me to just add it.) Mccallucc (talk) 16:58, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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WW II and Manhattan Project
According to my own family's lore, Panofsky worked on the Manhattan Project in some role. There may be sources on this, and his children (my first cousins) would also know more. But, as I stated above, they are my family and I myself do not have a NPOV about them. Therefore, I myself will not research nor add any of this info to any WP article. Acwilson9 (talk) 04:58, 21 October 2021 (UTC)


 * According to Lawrence and Oppenheimer (1968) by Nuel Pharr Davis, p. 147, General Groves consulted with physics bigwigs like Lawrence and Oppenheimer to choose a director for what would become the Los Alamos bomb lab. Oppenheimer at one point suggested Panofsky, but this would have been in 1942 or 1943, so Panofsky would have been just 23 or 24 years old.  Therefore it seems weird.  If it's true it's worth mentioning in the article, but I'd want to first see it corroborated by another source.  As we know, Oppenheimer himself ended up with the job, after a bunch of other possible candidates were unavailable, unsuitable, or turned it down. 2601:644:8584:2010:0:0:0:5FA4 (talk) 08:05, 8 August 2023 (UTC)


 * According to the Drell and Trilling citation - "biographical memoir" on the occasion of Panofsky's death -, "though initially classified as an enemy alien, Pief was granted citizenship and clearances to work on military projects, including an improved firing-error indicator, an acoustic device for detecting shock waves from supersonic bullets. His work on the firing-error indicator attracted the attention of luis alvarez and J. robert oppenheimer who invited him to los alamos in 1944 to develop a shock-wave detection device in order to measure the yields of nuclear explosions, including the Hiroshima bomb." (Drell was a longtime colleague and friend of Panofsky.)  Perhaps some other editor might choose to use this to add to the article's text.  I myself, lacking a NPOV, cannot and will not. Acwilson9 (talk) 20:15, 24 May 2024 (UTC)