11 Facts About Wolfgang Panofsky

Wolfgang Panofsky spent much of his early life in Hamburg, where his father was a professor of Art History.

From 1945 to 1951, Wolfgang Panofsky held an assistant and then associate professorship at the University of California, Berkeley, before permanently establishing himself as Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

Wolfgang Panofsky was on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association from 1996 until 1999.

Wolfgang Panofsky was a member of the Board of Sponsors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and won the Matteucci Medal in 1996 for his fundamental contributions to physics.

Wolfgang Panofsky was a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the Franklin Medal, the Ernest O Lawrence Medal, the Leo Szilard Award and the Enrico Fermi Award.

Wolfgang Panofsky's elder brother, Hans A Panofsky, was "an atmospheric scientist who taught at Pennsylvania State University for 30 years and who was credited with several advances in the study of meteorology".

Wolfgang Panofsky married Adele Irene DuMond, daughter of his PhD advisor in 1942.

Adele Wolfgang Panofsky was known at SLAC for her role in the building of the mounted Paleoparadoxia fossil skeleton display at the SLAC Visitors Center.

Wolfgang Panofsky died at the age of 88 on September 24,2007, in Los Altos, California, from a heart attack.

Wolfgang Panofsky stayed active at SLAC until his last day of life.

Wolfgang Panofsky was survived by his wife of 65 years, Adele Panofsky, their five children, 11 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren.