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- Title
My Life as Scientist and Professor.
- Authors
Banks, Peter M.
- Abstract
The foundations for my professional life began at Stanford University, thanks to a four year Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship and, in my fifth year, securing a graduate research assistantship. Although I was enrolled at Stanford as an Electrical Engineering major, I took many physics classes. My Physics teachers included Willis Lamb and Robert Hofstadter (Nobel Prize winning faculty) as well as the renowned Wolfgang Panofsky. In addition, I had close contact with two Physics graduate assistants: Henry Kendall (who later became a Nobel Prize winner) and James Bjorken (who was awarded the coveted Wolf Prize in physics). From these contacts and my classes, I came to learn that Physics would be my lifetime intellectual home. Not incidentally, Kendall and Bjorken were also responsible for my collegiate addiction to rock climbing, usually on the soft sandstone near Stanford but also along the walls of Yosemite Valley and peaks of Tuolumne Meadows. Key Point: Recollection of my life as scientist and professor
- Subjects
PHYSICS education; SCIENTISTS; PHYSICS teachers; STANFORD University; NAVAL reserves; SCHOLARSHIPS; ELECTRICAL engineering
- Publication
Journal of Geophysical Research. Space Physics, 2020, Vol 125, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
2169-9380
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/2020JA027857