David Zierler (@ZierlerDavid) / Twitter

, gives a behind-the-scenes look into the origins of Project M, Panofsky's work in #nationalsecurity from the Manhattan Project to JASON, and his ability to foster a family-like workplace aip.org/history-progra

4

15

Stewart Smith of

remembers the 1960 Chile earthquake and discovering Earth's free oscillations, spectral lines and vibrational modes

@CaltechSeismo

, partnership with

@DARPA

for #nuclear security, and grappling with the idea of earthquake cyclicity heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

2

6

Gino Segrè of

recounts WWII and his family's abrupt departure from Italy, Julian Schwinger and elementary particles

@harvardphysics

, thesis on neutron-deuteron scattering

@MIT

, field theory

@UCBerkeley

, and embracing a new life in science writing aip.org/history-progra

1

7

17

Magali Billen of

recalls family background in Belgium and upbringing in San Diego, college

@univpugetsound

, numerical modelling and subduction zones

@CaltechSeismo

, postdoc

@WHOI

, and the exciting future of computational #geophysics heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

2

7

Sean O'Keefe of

remembers life as a Navy brat, college

@Loyola_NOLA

, appropriations work

, Comptroller

, leading

,

,

and

, and the future of organizational leadership for US innovation aip.org/history-progra

1

5

Hartmut Spetzler of

recalls the postwar ravages of Nuremberg, service

@usairforce

, high-pressure rock research

@CaltechSeismo

, the surprising complexity of Earth's interior, appointment @Sandia, and current interests in #interferometry heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

1

2

4

Jerry Friedman of

remembers childhood in Chicago, learning from Enrico Fermi

@UChicagoPSD

, resonances and unitary #symmetry, electron scattering and the hodoscope

@SLAClab

, muons

@Fermilab

, and quark confirmation for

@NobelPrize

aip.org/history-progra

1

7

14

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 23

Marion Nelson recalls the value of having a pioneering woman in science as her mother, how she learned that

@Caltech

had gone co-ed, Marshall Hall and Kent Clark as particularly supportive faculty, and pursuing a career in children's theater heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

1

8

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 22

The late Paul Feldman of

remembers education

, Polykarp Kusch and

, appointment

, the incredible history of #atomicphysics, and wonderment at the achievements of

@NASAHubble

aip.org/history-progra

2

6

Dave Hitlin of

PMA reflects on the quest to discover dark matter, the significance of the SLD liquid #argon calorimeters, the most promising directions in high energy experimentation that could lead to new physics, and fifty years of CP violation heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

1

7

Sergey Leikin of

remembers upbringing in Russia and the intrusions of the KGB, education at the Institute of High Temperatures of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, research focus on #lipid bilayers, and current interest in pediatric bone diseases aip.org/history-progra

1

3

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 19

Bruce Julian, retired from

@USGS

, reflects on his pioneering research on induced earthquakes resulting from human activity,

@CaltechSeismo

and its role in nuclear verification, and seismology's value in promoting geothermal energy and carbon sequestration heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

2

6

Reina Maruyama of

describes upbringing in Japan, education

@PhysicsColumbia

, atomic lasers

@UWArtSci

, neutrino-less double beta decays and

@uw_icecube

, partnership

@Yale_QI

, and connecting quantum technology to astrophysics and #cosmology aip.org/history-progra

5

21

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 17

Bryan Vejar, Arborist of

@Caltech

, recounts the connections between socioeconomics and urban tree canopies, maintaining the unique landscape environment

@Disneyland

, and using #botany to keep campus green while conserving water in an era of climate change heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

4

5

Marvin Cohen of

physics recounts childhood in Montreal, optical spectra and hexagonal semiconductors

@UChicagoPSD

, Phil Anderson and superconductivity

@BellLabs

, quantum mechanics and philosophy, and eureka moments in #condensedmatter research aip.org/history-progra

2

12

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 15

Dick Rubinstein recounts The Great Electric Car Race between

@Caltech

and

@MIT

, 1960s student activism and the push for gender equality, and focus in the field of Human Factors, which combines psychology and engineering to improve human-computer interface heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

3

5

Allen Odian of

remembers childhood in Boston, #synchrotron research

@ScienceMIT

, pulsed electronics

@PhysicsIllinois

, searching for charged mesons, heavy photons

@JLab_News

, xenon and double beta decays, and the possibility of Majorana neutrinos aip.org/history-progra

1

5

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 13

The late Mario Amzel of

@BiophysicsJHMed

remembered life in Argentina, thesis in #crystallography and liquid crystals, research in monoclonal antibodies and leukotriene synthesis, and the advantages in approaching biology from first principles in physics aip.org/history-progra

1

5

16

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 12

Debbie Hall remembers a 40 year career in corporate law, current volunteer work as a judge pro tem, her experiences as one of the first women undergraduates

@Caltech

after it became co-ed in 1969, and the forward-looking faculty members who led the effort heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

1

5

Martha Krebs of

remembers early childhood in Japan, ferroelectrics

, science policy

, the origins of

and

's pivot beyond particle physics, directing

@doescience

, and energy efficiency

@NavyYardPhila

aip.org/history-progra

2

8

Gary Flandro of

recalls working at

in 1965 as a grad student

@Caltech

, and realizing that the planetary alignment of the outer solar system would enable the Grand Tour

@NASAVoyager

with gravity assist and head to interstellar space heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

3

17

Dean Zollman of

remembers a career in PER, physics education research, the origins and benefits of

@AAPTHQ

, the support of

@NSF

and

@FulbrightPrgrm

in science pedagogy, and conveying the beauty of quantum mechanics through visual explanation aip.org/history-progra

1

4

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 8

Jim Whitcomb, retired from

@NSF

Earth Sciences, recounts Don Anderson and deep seismic waves at the old

@CaltechSeismo

mansion, earthquake hazard and the origins of

@SCEC

, EarthScope and understanding continental geology, and the import of #GPS technology heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

1

3

Raymond Jeanloz of

and

remembers Earth mantle research

@CaltechSeismo

, diamond-anvil research

@Harvard

, and an expansive research agenda

@UCBerkeley

in nuclear security, exoplanets, quantum mechanics, and national science policy heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

1

2

9

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 6

Claudio Pellegrini of @uclaphyssci remembers building a cloud chamber at the Frascati Lab in Rome, the development of the National Synchrotron Light Source

@BrookhavenLab

, the meaning of instability theory, and recent research on X-ray lasers at

@SLAClab

aip.org/history-progra

4

15

Jeanne Hardebeck of

remembers college

, crustal stress and #earthquake formation

@CaltechSeismo

, research agenda in statistics and forecasting methods, seismotectonics and hazard assessment, and the benefits of federal geophysics research heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

2

7

David Nygren of

remembers CP symmetry violation

@PhysicsColumbia

, the origins of the Time Projection Chamber

@BerkeleyLab

, neutrino research and partnership with

@uw_icecube

, and addressing #climate change from a background in particle physics aip.org/history-progra

1

3

20

Jeroen Tromp of

recalls leaving the Netherlands to study

@Princeton

, faculty appointment

@Harvard

, leading

@CaltechSeismo

and ushering in a new era in high-power computation for #geophysics, and focus in seismic tomography and surface waves heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

1

6

David Zierler

@ZierlerDavid

Apr 2

Bill Silfvast, author of Laser Fundamentals, remembers his interest in optics at

@UUtah

, fellowship

@OxfordPhysics

and postgraduate work at Bell Labs, finding new types of lasers using optical detectors and photomultipliers, and the growth of

@CREOLatUCF

aip.org/history-progra

5

15

Carl Tape of

and

recounts early interests in atmospheric monitoring, seismic image coding

@CaltechSeismo

, tomography focus

@hseas

, seismographic research that is unique to Alaska, and computational advances for imaging Earth's interior heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

2

11

Demetrius Venable of

recalls segregated Virginia, ROTC service

@VSU_1882

, thesis on polarization in solid materials

, appointments

and

, partnerships with

and

, and long commitment to physics pedagogy aip.org/history-progra

1

2

3

Brad Efron of

remembers the foundational value of mathematics as an undergraduate

@Caltech

, thesis research on probability of geometric objects, the innovation of the bootstrapping method, and applying statistical methods across all sciences heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

1

4

Bob Kirshner of

recounts astronomy

, supernovae research

@Caltech

, observing time

@KittPeakNatObs

, optical infrared focus

@CenterForAstro

, role in discovering the accelerating universe and

@NobelPrize

, and supporting science

@MooreFound

aip.org/history-progra

2

12

Kuo-Fong Ma of

recounts childhood in Taiwan, finite difference calculations and tsunamis

@CaltechSeismo

, foundational research on the calamitous 921 earthquake, service

@NcUofficial

and

@theAGU

, and the development of early warning technology heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd

4

11

Thomas Epps, III of

remembers growing up in an academic family in VA, undergrad

@MITChemE

, polymers and nanostructure membranes

@UMNCSE

, postdoc on thin films

@NIST

, partnership with

@doescience

, and research agenda in biotechnology and fuel cells aip.org/history-progra

6

18

David Wald of

recounts physics

, seismological research

@uazgeos

, thesis on spatial slip distribution

@CaltechSeismo

, research focus on waveform modeling and inversion, and the origins of ShakeMap and Did You Feel It? monitoring projects heritageproject.caltech.edu/interviews-upd