NOTE: The celebration is not supported by SLAC funds. Individual contributions are appreciated.

Wish W.K.H. (Pief) Panofsky a Happy 88^th Birthday

Comments	From	Title/Affiliation
Dear Pief, Warm wishes to a true renaissance man on this, your 88th birthday celebration! Your appreciation for the arts, sciences and the humanities is readily apparent in everything you've created and to all of those whose lives you've enriched. Your wit, charm and wisdom is a blessing to us all. I'm especially thankful to you for bearing witness to the benefits of comprehensive nuclear disarmament. You truly are an inspiration to us all... many happy returns. The Aarons Family	Aarons, G.	SLAC
A very happy birthday to you! It's an honor and a pleasure to know you and to work on your papers here in the SLAC archives. Thank you for showing the world that intelligence and integrity can co-exist. Kindest regards, Penny	Ahlstrand, Pennington	archives assistant
Happy Birthday Pief...you are one of the great ones. I will gladly reset your clock for the next 88 years.	Anderson, Terry	SLAC
Dear Professor Panofsky, Thank You for your dedication on services on nuclear arms control. Your efforts are helping secure a safe future for our fragile planet.	Axelrod, Herbert	SSRL
Not only have you performed with greatness, your gentleness of spirit shines forth. May your life continue to beam with star power! Many happy returns.	Beidatsch, Elaine	International Services Office
Dear Pief, On behalf of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, we send very best wishes for a joyous celebration of your 88th birthday. We are pleased and honored that you continue to grace the pages of the Bulletin with your insight and wisdom, and look forward to our future collaboration. With warmest regards, Kennette Kennette Benedict Executive Director Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists	Benedict, Kennette	Executive Director--Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Congratulations on your upcoming 88th birthday! I am thrilled to see you do so well, especially when I think back on the tough time you had after your operation. I'm so sorry I won't be able to make it to your party on Monday (we have the Hoover Spring Retreat that day), but send you my very best wishes for a wonderful celebration and continued good health and happiness! Fondly, Linda	Bernard, Linda	Deputy Archivist, Hoover Institution Archives
Dear Pief, we will meet soon here in Roma. Meanwhile, accept my best wishes for your birthday. Best Carlo	Bernardini, Carlo	Old Pief's fan and admirer
Pief- You are the gold standard in lab directors! Have a happy birthday. Nan & Marty	Breidenbach, Martin	SLAC
My very best wishes to you on your 88th birthday, and my greatest thanks for everything that you have done for all of us at SLAC.	Brodsky, Stan	SLAC
Dear Pief, I wish you the best 88th birthday anyone has ever had. :-) Alex (the guy who occasionally bugs you about heavy ion fusion)	Burke, Alexander	Klystron department
Sorry i missed the exact day, but, but Peggy and i send our very best wishes to you, a little late. We are in \paris on our way back from the latest CISAC/nuclear fuels meeting with the Russians. Best Regards, Bill Burns	Burns, Bill	CISAC
Happy Birthday Pief Lang may yer lum reek! N	Calder, Neil	SLAC
Dear Pief: My very best wishes for your coming birthday -- and I look forward to our next meeting, wherever whenever it will be. Pugwash is still quite active -- under the able stewardship of a new Secretary General (again an Italian mathematical physicist, Paolo Cotta Ramusino) -- focussing mainly on local conflicts having a nuclear component (India-Pakistan, the extended Middle East, the Far East) as well as on more traditional arms control concerns (such as proliferation -- with the unhelpful signals of continued reliance on nuclear weaponry even by those who do not really need them and would profit most by their prohibition, with Russia threatening to walk out of the INF Treaty...but this is meant to be a birthday card...). Peace! Francesco	Calogero, Francesco	Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Happy Birthday Pief ! You're an inspiration to all of us.	Chari, Narasimha	Chief Architect, Tropos Networks
Happy Birthday Pief Your perspective insight and dedication make you the birthday gift to us all.	Collins, Brooks	SLAC
Dear Pief, It is an honor to have known you and SLAC for over forty years. Have a wonderful birthday celebration. Warmest Regards, Bernie Culver.	Culver, Bernie	Admin to Dick Taylor
Happy Birthday! You're an inspiration to all of us at SLAC - Best wishes...	Dalby, Chip	SLAC
Dear Pief, I send you fifty bizillion Happy Birthday wishes on the 88th anniversary of your arrival in this world. Your wit, intelligence, and passion to do the right thing are exceptional gifts showered on all who cross your path. Your light will shine forever! Best always, Logan	Davis, Logan	SLAC Director's Office
Happy 88th Birthday to Princeton basketball's MVP (Most Valiant Physicist)! Thanks for all you do, and for who you are: SLAC, Stanford and the world are a better place because of you.	Deken, Jean	SLAC Archivist
Happy 88th Birthday Pief, It's been terrific to have you as a colleague for all these years, and to work all the while at the lab you built. As you know, the number 8 is lucky in China, so this should be a doubly great year for you! Best Wishes, Lance	Dixon, Lance	SLAC
Dear Pief, Thank you for all that you have done for SLAC and for all your work for arms control and disarmament. Happy birthday.	Donald, Martin	SLAC (retired)
Happy birthday, Pief! You set a standard for age*activity that is very hard to match.	Fetter, Steve	Dean, Maryland School of Public Policy
Happy birthday and many more to come! Working in the environment you built at SLAC has been a great experience. And your continuing work on the big issues for the country and the world is greatly appreciated. We all look forward to your next colloquium! -Clive Field	Field, Clive	SLAC
Dear Pief I have had the good fortune to do my research (from 1968 to 1986) at the laboratory that you have created. You have been an inspiration to many generations of physicists and continue being so. Best wishes for a wonderful 88th birthday celebration and many more to come	Galtieri, Lina	LBNL physicist
This is to wish you a very happy birthday. I've just read "U.S. nuclear policy goes from MAD to NUTS" in the Stanford Report. You are still speaking and writing with great persuasiveness. I'm behind you in years--only 81--, but you are way ahead of me in what you are still doing to advance the cause of nuclear non-proliferation. Congratulations and Happy Birthday, George	George, Bunn	Center for International Security and Cooperation
Dear Pief: On behalf of the „Amaldi Group“ of the Union of German Academies of Sciences and on my own behalf I send you our most cordial congratulations on you 88th birthday, combined with our best wishes for many more fruitful and happy years to come. Without your initiative and perseverance the Amaldi Conferences would not have come about during the last phase of the Cold War, with European Academies joining those of the USA und the USSR to discuss problems of arms control, disarmament and further questions of global security. Furthermore, as chair of CISAC, you made sure that US participation in these meetings was first-class, setting an example to the other participating academies. Unfortunately, the need for these conferences continues in our less than peaceful world. We look forward to seeing you at the next, 17^th, Amaldi Conference in Hamburg at the end of this or the beginning of next year. More details will follow. It is with great pleasure that I remember my first encounter with you in September of 1955 when I came to Stanford from Germany to expose nuclear emulsions at the linear accelerator. You were very helpful and even invited me to have dinner with you, Mrs Panofsky and your five children in your beautiful home at Los Altos. Many encounters followed over the years on various occasions in which you were always a source of reliable information and friendly support. Again, many happy returns! Klaus Gottstein	Gottstein, Klaus	Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Physics; Representative of Union of German Academies of Sciences with the Amaldi Conferences
Dear Pief, Happy 88th. I am sorry that I will not be there to wish you Happy Birthday personally but do wish you good health and many more birthdays. Sincerely, Fred	Harris, Fred	University of Hawaii
Pief, One of my greatest honors was to have an opportunity to work with you on issues I know you held dear. Happy birthday, never let go of your passion for making the world a safer place.	Henderson, Bob	Former JASON Director
April, 22 2007 Dear Pief, On the happy occasion of your 88th birthday, I would like to extend to you, both in my own name and also on behalf of the entire IHEP staff, my warmest greetings. My colleagues here join me in wishing you many happy returns of the day! Your name is known to all in IHEP, and you are called "Lao Pan" in Chinese, the most affectionate form of address. This is attributed to the special feeling you have been cherishing for Chinese scientists. Since your first China visit in 1976 and the official establishment of governmental cooperation on high energy physics between China and US in 1979, you have spared no efforts in promoting and deepening this cooperation between our two countries. When we review the past PRC/US collaborative efforts, we shall find the big contributions you have made either as a member of the American party or as a senior advisor to the Chinese Academy of Sciences. I am very glad to say that every step forward or success we have made is inseparable from your help in relation to the accelerator construction and the physics experiments. And what gladdens us is that the cooperation forged by you and our other American friends has been expanding, with some remarkable results produced. Although I am far away from SLAC, I do feel like attending your birthday party held at SLAC by sending this greeting. And I wish you a sound health and even greater successes in your future career. Best Regards, Hesheng	Hesheng, Chen	Director of IHEP, Beijing
Thank you for creating a world that makes physics fun for all of us who are physics-challenged. You not only built an important lab but a home away from home for many people. Although some of us have left home we still care about the people, the history AND the science! Best wishes and Happy Birthday, Barb Hoddy p.s. and thank you for being so good to Ellie.	Hoddy, Barbara	Arizona State University
Dear Professor Panofsky, on behalf of the Max Planck Institute of Physics , we send our cordial congratulations on your 88th birthday and very best wishes for happy coming years. With best regards, Wolfgang Hollik Managing Director	Hollik, Wolfgang	Managing Director Max Planck Institute of Physics Munich
In Zagreb -- better greetings when I get home. All the world's good wishes to you! Cheers, Jo	Husbands, Jo	Former Director, CISAC, NAS
Dear Pief, Your energy and wisdom continue to be an inspiration -- thanks so much for leading by example. Happy Birthday and best wishes for your 88th!	Jeanloz, Raymond	University of California, Berkeley and CISAC
Dear Pief: Happy Birthday to you. I really enjoyed all of my 30+ years at SLAC. I realized it was largely due to you. Your personality and abilities made you the perfect leader for a project of that scope. It was and is a source of pleasure to me to have been a part of it.	Johnson, Earl K. (Ken)	SLAC Retiree
Have a wonderful celebration, Pief. You have been a good friend, from the Alvarez Linac days thru building SLAC thru the Trinity celebration. Best wishes for many more happy productive years. Larry Johnston	Johnston, Lawrence	Emeritus Physics prof, U of Idaho
Pief - A very happy birthday, and best wishes to you. Thanks for all your involvement and support for excellent radiation safety at SLAC from the very beginning and for your advocacy for radiation safety systems and programs for accelerator centers in general.	Kase, Kenneth	Vice President, International Radiation Protection Association
Dear Pief- It has been great working with you these past years. You are a magnificent inspiration to us all.* Many many more happy returns, Eleanor Kinnebrew*	Kinnebrew, Eleanor	Retired Chief of Staff to the Director, SLAC
Dear Pief, Happy 88th Birthday! Thank you for being such an inspiration to all of us with your fantastic and wonderful work and caring attitude in physics, arms control, and nuclear disarmament! I greatly admire your modesty!! You are the very best!!! Tom Knight	Knight, Tom	SLAC
Everytime I go to the injector vault at sector 20 of the LINAC, I think of you and how you, more than 40 years ago, had the foresight to think that some day we might need this tunnel. LCLS is certainly benefitting from your advance planning. I wonder how many people are able to think so far in the future. Thank-you for being an example to all of us as for how to take our dreams and ideas and turn them into substance that can change the world for generations. Happy Birthday!	Kotturi, Dayle	LCLS Controls, SLAC
Best wishes on your birthday, and many thanks from us all at LCLS as we embark on using your accelerator for another 40+ years for new science.	Krejcik, Patrick	LCLS
Wishing you very Happy Birthday! Anil	Kumar, Anil	Fermi National Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL
Happy Birthday Pief, May all your wishes and aspirations be realized on this special celebration. You certainly are a stunning example of a life well lived. May you continue to inspire and lead by example.	Kuraitis, George	CEF Facilities Coordinator and UTR
Two decades ago, my son visited your home with your grandaughter. He came back talking about glue balls and how cool they were and what a great time he had talking to you. You have spent your life sharing your love of science and love of people with the world. That spirit has made SLAC the place it is, a place I have been blessed to spend the past 25 years. Best wishes for a wonderful birthday and many more.	LeCount, Arla	SCCS Help Desk and Desktop Support Manager
Dear Pief, Very,very best wishes for your 28th birthday (second cycle). May you achieve even greater heights in science and human endeavor in your present cycle. Warmest regards, T. D.	Lee, T.D.	Professor of Physics, Columbia University
Dear Pief, Let me join the chorus of many voices sending you best wishes on your 88th birthday. Our friends at the China Academy of Engineering Physics and Hou Rucheng at the Institute of High Energy Physics were part of that chorus, and I'm grateful to you for sending me the page of personal wishes from the leaders at the CAEP. I am on my way to LA and will miss sending you a more personal message, but let me thank you once again for being such a wonderful friend and part of my life at Stanford. As I look at our CISAC, I repeatedly remind myself of the critical role you played and continue to play in the building of such a unique enterprise. So, enjoy your birthday and have a joyous day, John	Lewis, John	CISAC, Stanford University
Dear Pief, I just retired after working 35.5 years at SLAC. It was a real pleasure to work at SLAC, and I think the atmosphere you set to allow employees to explore their creativity and curosity is not only what made it a great place to work, but also what facilitated the great science we have accomplished over the years. Happy Birthday, Connie Logg	Logg, Connie	SLAC Retiree
Dearest Pief, You've taught me nearly all I will need to know in this lifetime of how to regard everyone with their terrible troubles and innate dignity, how things should run, and how to go home to the peace of family at the end of every day. Happy Birthday and Much Love, Ellie	Lwin, Ellie	the one mere mortal supporting Panofsky (administratively)
Pief, The Lab and the world are a much richer places because of you. Your warmth, humanity, clarity of thought, and profundity have given much to us all. For that we owe you much. The Wizard of SLAC is still "the greatest". Happy sqrt(7744), 58x, 130b, (180/pi)*arcsin(1)-2, 2³2³! Harvey	Lynch, Harvey	SLAC
Pief, Your energy, humor, perspective and dedication are an inspiration and model for all of us at the Lab. Thanks and Happy Birthday. Lee	Lyon, Lee	Director, HR
Dear Pief, Very best wishes for your birthday and for many more to come. May you continue your amazing activities, and to be an example for all of us to admire Louis Lyons (Recently spent 3 happy and productive months at SLAC)	Lyons, Louis	Oxford
Dear Pief: Wishing you Many Happy Returns..... with fondness and best wishes Usha	Malik, Usha	University of Iowa
Dear Pief, Happy 88th birthday! Working with you on the U.S/China High Energy Physics Program was a pleasure, and education, and an inspiration. Best, Jeff	Mandula, Jeffrey	Washington
Happy birthday dear Pief. Many happy returns. Sincerely,	Masaniai, Melodi	Member, Supporters of Great Emeriti
Dear Pief, On the occasion of your 88 birth day may I wish you many happy returns, with fond memories of our many interactions during the years 1998-2004 when we were busy with the CISAC-NIAS dialogues? Even if we did not always agree with each other it has always been a pleasure to meet you and talk to you as we tried to convince each other of our views! I am sorry I won’t be there at Stanford on 24 April, but I take the opportunity to wish you all happiness in years to come. With warm regards, Roddam --------------------------------------------------- Prof Roddam Narasimha National Institute of Advanced Studies Bangalore 560 012, India	Narasimha, Roddam	National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
Dear Pief, On behalf of the German Scientists who are working on physics, and arms control "allerherzlichst" best wishes for today and the time beyond! Your long way from the "Rabenstraße" in Hamburg to Princeton, Caltech (and the plane over Hiroshima), Berkeley and Stanford marks a long, fascinating and seminal life. Your work and humanistic attitude is an inspiring example for those who love physics and invest additional time to work on the reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons. It was a pleasure for me to meet you at the Amaldi Conferences and I wish you personally a wonderful day with much music, friends and good food. We hope to see you next in Hamburg again!! Götz Neuneck, Hamburg PS. 88 is a repeated digit and a double upright symbol for infinity! May you stay Forever Young!	Neuneck, Götz	Chair German Pugwash Group, Hamburg
Dear Pief: Congratulations on your 88th birthday. Your contributions over the years continue to generate beautiful results. The remarkable linac you created and nurtured, the laboratory you have created, are living mementos: high energy physics discoveries defining our understanding of elementary particles, and now new frontiers in ultra short time scales and single molecule dynamics. We are all indebted to you, and continue to profit from your insight and energy. I join your colleagues from around the world in appreciation of all you have done for science, and for us. God bless you, Ray	Orbach, Ray	Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
To my dearest Papa, wishing you all the best, always. Love, Margy	Panofsky, Margaret	daughter
Pief, Thank you for everything that you've done for the Lab and all of us who have been lucky enough to work here for so long. May you continue to enjoy life and never stop being curious. You've made SLAC and the world a better place. With you as an inspiration, you make everyone that has had the pleasure on knowing you a better person. Happy Birthday (and many more). Sunnie	Parish (Sund), Sunnie	42 year SLACer
Best wishes on your 2³*11 birthday...the next one will be prime!	Partridge, Richard	Brown University / SLAC
Pief, Sorry to miss your birthday celebration but I will be at a meeting on the ILC, the great, great...?...grandchild of your machine, 'THE' linac. Happy birthday, Ewan	Paterson, Ewan	SLAC
Hi Pief, I remember when I first met you long ago and I typed (on a real typewriter) the tales you recorded of your trip to China, with bicycle bells in the background. I also recall watching Adele working with the bones in the basement and a cow you rescued from train tracks in the attic. I feel so lucky to have worked with you directly and to continue working in the wonderful world you have created at this lab. I can't wait to read your book! Roz	Pennacchi, Roz	SLAC
Hi Pief == It's about time you reached my age! What took you so long? Does anyone around remember your great successful battle over the Woodside power lines? Many happy returns! Dave	Perlman, David	SF Chronicle
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein Happy Birthday, Pief!	Pierre, Jean-Raymond	SLAC
Happy Birthday Pief This place has changed my life and made me feel worth something I can't even come close to telling you how much. I thank you and my daughter thanks you and my parents thank you too!!!! Jeremy Pigula	Pigula, Jeremy	Mech Tech Klystron Microwave Engineering
Dear Dr. Panofski, I wish You the Best of the Birthdays and more to come! I was thrilled to see you in the audience when, some (14...) years ago, I gave a talk in the Orange Room on the influence of the terrestrial tides on the Energy of LEP and you asked questions!	Placidi, Massimo	CERN Retiree
Dear Pief! Congratulations on your 88th birthday. You are an inspiration to us all. My very warm regards. Bill Potter	Potter, William	Director, Center for Nonproliferation Studies
I was so pleased over a 29 year period to be one of your workers. You have provided the inspiration that has motivated many scientists to do great work, but also your amazing spirit has also guided those of us who have toiled as engineers, technicians, secretaries and others to work well in harmony with your vision. Recht viele Grüsse an Du und Deine lieber Frau. VGP	Price, Vernon G.	SLAC Retiree
Happy Birthday Sir. Without You SLAC would not exist; Thank You.	Putallaz, Gerard	SLAC, Retired
Happy Birthday, Pief, I count myself very lucky to be among the people in the lab who have memories of working under your leadership. It is hard to describe how grateful I am for such an experience. I sometimes wonder if you grow a bit numb to the quantity of praise that is heaped on you so regularly from all quarters. It becomes a challenge for those of us who admire you for what you have accomplished and what kind of a person you are to come up with adequate superlatives to describe you and our feelings about you. One language only supplies us with a few choices of words that are up to the task, and we could use a few more. I can honestly say, that in the thirty years I have been with SLAC, I have never heard a negative comment about you from anyone. If someone challenged me to come up with one, I could think of only one. And that might be that your intrinsic humble approach and modest nature could possibly cause you to fall short of realizing just how deeply, universally loved, appreciated, respected, and admired you truly are, and that you so richly deserve all of it. Many more, Pief. -Howard Rogers	Rogers, C. Howard	Associate Engineer, LSST
I have been so blessed and it has been such a great joy to have the opportunity to play a very small roll in your support team. You are an awesome individual! A - accomplished / analytical / articulate / adaptable W - works with passion / wise beyond your years E - established / efficient / engages others S - strong sense social responsibility / sincere / steadfast O - organized, optomistic M - motivator / models integrity E - enthusiastic / empathetic / ethical And these are just the traits that apply to the letters - you are all of these and so much more! Happy Day!	Rogers, Diana	SLAC
Warm wishes for a wonderful 88th birthday Pief. Sid sends his best wishes from the east coast and is sorry he cannot attend your birthday celebration next week. We both send you many happy returns of the day!	Rose, Bonnie	SLACer
Dear Pief, I am very pleased to learn that April 24, 2007 is the red-letter day when you will be 88 years young. Let me join your Chinese friends at IHEP in wishing you many happy returns of the day! As a very ordinary person, I am deeply honored to have direct or indirect contacts with you in the past two decades. And as a historical witness, I can enumerate the contributions you have made either to the promotion of friendly cooperation between China and the United States in the field of high energy physics, but also to the furtherance of concrete collaborative efforts between SLAC and IHEP. Referring to the PRC/US collaboration on high energy physics, both parties speak highly of it as a two-way street for which you have made your mark, and an important mark at that. You have made a very deep impression upon me in terms of your noble characters: simple way of living, easy to approach, equal treatment between front-faced fugures and people with low positions, and internationalism. When we look back at the development of IHEP, it is no exaggeration to say that every step forward is related to your painstaking efforts. We wish you health and look forward to hearing more exciting news from you both in your continued full time work and the furtherance of PRC/US collaboration on high energy physics. With best regards, Hou Rucheng	Rucheng, Hou	Director Emeritus, Office of Foreign Relations, Institute of High Energy Physics
Dear Pief: Best wishes on your 88th birthday! I regret I can't attend, but I will be with you in spirit. My fondest professional memories are of the time I spent with you on CISAC addressing the most critical security issues of our time. (Not to mention the valuable life lessons you taught, including "always give away more paper than you receive.") Love to Adele. Fondly, Lynn	Rusten, Lynn	Senate Armed Services Committee and former CISAC staff
Dear Pief, May you live forever, propelled by your good deeds and the good wishes of all who have known you. Andew S.	sabersky, andrew	fotoSAB
Happy Birthday and congratulations on being such a young 88 year-old, Pief. Best wishes, Scott	Sagan, Scott	CISAC. Stanford
My best wishes, Pief! We shall meet soon. Receive my memory and admiration from me, your younger friend, together with Costanza and all my sons. And with all the staff in Rome and Frascati, the Laboratory you helped so much during its developement. Giorgio Salvini	Salvini , Giorgio	Physicist University of Rome , Italy
It has been an honor and a real pleasure to know Pief as my professor and a friend for over 50 years. I have learned from him physics and several other important things in life, one of them being how to maintain a sense of humor. During one of the recent visits of Pief and Adele, I said, “Pief, you were younger than half my age I am right now, when I had met you for the first time at Stanford over 50 years ago in 1956.” Adele and my wife Veera both had puzzled looks on their faces. After a moment of contemplation, Adele asked, “Arjun, how is that again?” Pief did quick math in his head and said with a twinkle in his eyes, “Yes, Arjun is right. He is more than twice as old now as I was when he had met me for the first time at Stanford over 50 years ago!” Yes Pief, using the above criteria, henceforth you shall always be younger than me and I shall always be older than you! May you stay ever young as I get older every day. Best regards and best wishes for a happy 88^th birthday from me, Veera and my family. ------ Arjun	Saxena, Arjun	Emeritus Professor & Patroon, RPI
Happy Birthday and best wishes from Mirella and Carlo to Pief and Adele.	Schaerf, Carlo e Mirella	University of Rome
88: A primitive semiperfect number (a description which can't possibly refer to you as you are anything but primitive or semiperfect) - so I send you my heartfelt congratulations for entering into your prime 89^_th year. Please do stick around for years to come, to continue sharing your wisdom and inspire all of us so very meaningfully.	Schwob, Pierre	Fan (scientific groupie)
Happy Birthday Pief! I do want to wish you a happy Birthday and many happy returns! Also, I want to thank you (and your wife) for your friendship. Little do you know the profound affect you have had on my life. Little did I know what the future held when my initial major professor, Jesse DuMond, at Cal Tech said, "I have a son-in-law up at Stanford who just got a contract and is building an accelerator! Why don't you meet him and look for a job up there?" Ten years of my life at SLAC working in a wonderful environment (Pief's environment!), to me is beyond explaining. The ten years are only for remembering and appreciating as one of the great blessing in my life. I sincerely want to thank you for all your support and influence on my life, which, of course, did not end at ten years! I am sure I lack knowledge of your many accomplishments, but for those that I do know about, I have come to appreciate you for your contribution to science, for your technical leadership, for your contributions to our country, and to the world, thereby, making it a better place to live, etc. But most of all happy birthday and thanks for being my friend! Ed Seppi	Seppi, Edward	Varian Medical Systems
Dear Pief, It is, indeed, a pleasure, to be amongst those wishing you a Happy Birthday. What a fantastic life you have had and continue to have! Lots of wonderful HEP, lots at SLAC, lots of government advising work, lots of activity at the NAS, and – surely – many things I don’t even know about (although I pay some attention since your activities often gives me good ideas). It has been a pleasure to have interacted with you through the years and I look forward to many more (I need a good role model). Andy	Sessler, Andrew	Director Emeritus, LBL
Dear Pief: I don't know if you remember me, but I was one of the first in a group, that started to design the vacuum system for the accelerator. We started at the Maintenance Yard Building at the Campus, - Project M for Monster and eventually moved to an A& E Building. I was working for Fred Hall. But anyhow - Happy Birthday!! (You got me beat by 8 years, I'll be 80 next month). George Skoda	Skoda, George	Past SLAC employee
Dear Pief! Please, accept the warmest regards and best wishes of your extremely long time Novosibirsk "Round Table" friends (and, of course, my personal ones)! You are always in our hearts. Please, transfer our greetings to Adele. Hope to greet you again at Novosibirsk, at SLAC, and at any other place of the World. Sasha	Skrinsky, Alexander	Director, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
HBD Pief! At a recent town hall meeting soliciting the characteristics needed for the next Director, everything was mentioned short of walking on water and parting the Red Sea. My summary, almost as unrealistic, was one word: Pief-like. So old friend, congratulations and thank you for every unseen, unremarked thing you have done for so long! Jim Spencer	Spencer, Jim	SLAC
Dear Pief, It was so enriching and uplifting to have you and Adele in Hamburg last summer. I wish we could have more such occasions. May your birthday be filled with joy when listening to Mozart, tasting chocolate and meeting old and new friends. Best wishes and heartfelt greetings to you and Adele from your "Vaterstadt" Hamburg Hartwig Spitzer	Spitzer, Hartwig	Professor University of Hamburg
Happy Birthday PIEF. If it hadn't been for your efforts, Sir, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to work at the Laboratory for 27 years. It was a gas.	Stephenson, E	SLAC Retired
Pief, it's been an honor working with you this past year. Best Wishes to you on your Birthday!	Stewart, Greg	SLAC
Pief, I just saw the SLAC Today article about your 88th birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Heard your talk on Nuclear Weapons here at Fermilab last year and you looked good. Glad things are going well for you. Sincerely, Ed Temple	Temple, Ed	Fermilab
Pief - Happy Birthday - the world's a better place -- simply BETTER -- for all you're doing and not least for just being Pief. Don't let up. Thanks for support.	Tisch, Tom	3 guys you've helped
Dear Pief, Happy, Happy Birthday. You have set an example that will be very hard to match. We wish you many many more productive and successful years. Maya and George	Trilling, George	Physicist
dear Prof Pief, Whatever the occasion, you deserve the whoopla. Thanks for sharing your good judgment and steady hand for 50 years of my life, and with so many others. That continued with your lecture at SLAC last month on Nuclear Weapons. -- Jack Truher	Truher, Jack	SLAC retiree
Dear Pief, You were the first scientist I knew. You still are the standard by which I judge all others. If Roz and I could be at the party, we'd sing you Happy Birthday in 2-part harmony! All the best, Frannie	Turner, Fran	SLAC and Stanford U
Best wishes from all members of the Italian branch of the Amaldi Conferences and mine personally.	Vesentini, Edoardo	Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Happy Birthday to Pief, the person I admire most in all the world. Bettie and I wish we could be there to congratulate you in person, but >you know we can't leave our beautiful Hawaii.. Jim and Bettie Walling	Walling, Jim	Old Friend
Dear Pief; SLAC will continue to thrive for many years with the LCLS X-ray Free-electron Laser, made possibe due to your vision in creating an incredible linac. All the best for many more years of efforts to bring some sanity to US nuclear policy. Herman	Winick, Herman	SLAC
Pief, I am delighted to wish you a happy 88th birthday. You are an extraordinary man who does extraordinary things every day. Your kindness, intelligence, creativity and good humor have left a lasting impression on me. My wish for you on your birthday is that you continue to promote world peace and scientific cooperation throughout the world. You are indeed one of a kind and a man of honor and integrity. With my fondest regards, Lesley Wolf	Wolf, Lesley	SLAC Library Specialist
Dear Dr. Panofsky, It is quite an honor to be working on your manuscript entitled "Panofsky on Physics, Politics and Peace: Pief Remembers". I hope that you will be proud of it, as I will be,when the book comes out in July. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy Birthday and many more to come! With best wishes, Jenny	Wolkowicki, Jenny	Senior Production Editor, Springer Science + Business Media

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Wish W.K.H. (Pief) Panofsky a Happy 88th Birthday

Happy 88th Birthday to Princeton basketball's MVP (Most Valiant Physicist)! Thanks for all you do, and for who you are: SLAC, Stanford and the world are a better place because of you.

Dear Pief,

Wish W.K.H. (Pief) Panofsky a Happy 88^th Birthday