Celebrating synchrotrons and a special scientist

摘要

Friends, family and colleagues past and present gathered for a one-day symposium, "Instruments of Discovery: Past and Future of Synchrotron Light Sources," held at SLAC on 2 October to honour accelerator physicist Herman Winick. His 50-plus years as a builder of synchrotrons and as a champion of synchrotron radiation as a tool for discovery and development began at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator in 1959. However, these activities really took off when he arrived in Stanford in 1973 to lead the technical design of what was then known as the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Project and is now the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).