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Nature 450, 182 (8 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450182a; Published online 7 November 2007

Obituary: Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky (1919–2007)

Sidney D. Drell1

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Physicist, and passionate and influential advocate of arms control.

Wolfgang Panofsky — 'Pief' to his friends and colleagues — died of a heart attack on 24 September at his home in Los Altos, California. He was admired worldwide as a great physicist and the founding director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

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