Robert F. Mozley, 1917 - 1999

SLAC Professor

Bob Mozley with group, 1976
(SLAC - Zawojski) Bob Mozley, third from left, with SLAC Group D colleagues, 1976

Professional and Biographical Information

  • Robert F. Mozley, 82, Professor And an Expert on Arms Control. Obituary by Wolfgang Saxon, The New York Times, May 29, 1999
  • Robert Fred Mozley. Obituary by Walter Toki and Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky. Physics Today, September 1999, p. 71-72
  • Memorial Resolution Robert F. Mozley (1917-1999) Presented to the Senate of the Academic Council January 11, 2001 by Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, Richrd E. Taylor, and Charles Prescott
  • Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, Affiliate, 1989-1999
  • Staff Physicist, Federation of American Scientists, 1987-1989
  • Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Professor
    • Acting Research Director, 1980
    • Spokesperson, MARK III spectrometer group, 1979-1998
    • Executive Officer, SLAC Faculty, 1972-1982
    • Chairman, SLAC Radiation Committee 1965?-1975
    • Professor,and Head of Group D SLAC, 1963-1987
  • Associate Professor, Stanford, High Energy Physics Laboratory, 1953-1962
  • Instructor, Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1950-1953
  • M. A. and Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley 1950
  • Engineering Assistant, Engineer, and Project Engineer, Sperry Gyroscope Company, 1941-1945
  • B. A cum laude, Physics, Harvard University, 1938

Publications

  • Robert F. Mozley, "Uranium enrichment and other technical problems relating to nuclear weapons proliferation," Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, 320 Galvez Street, Stanford CA 94305-6165, U.S.A., (July 1994) 65 pp.
  • Oral history interview. High-Energy Physics. Selected Experiments: SLAC-SP-032: MARK-III at SPEAR, 1990-1991. by American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase I: High-Energy Physics.
  • Fetter and Mozley. Emission and Absorption of Radiation. Science & Global security, 1990, Volume 1, pp.225-302
  • Contributor to: Reversing the arms race: how to achieve and verify deep reductions in the Nuclear Arsenals (Science & Global Secuirty monograph Series, Volume 1) by Frank Von Hippel (author), R. Z. Sagdeev (Editor), 1992. Frank Von Hippel
  • Contributor to: Space Reactor Arms Control: Overview.
  • Other publications are available from INspire and GoogleScholar.

Archival Materials

Robert F. Mozley papers held by the SLAC Archives, History & Records Office are currently being processed, and are not yet open for research. SLAC staff may access descriptions of his papers by clicking this link and entering his last name in the search box at the upper right on that page.  

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Bob Mozley, 1964
Bob Mozley 1964 ID photo (SLAC)
Mozley, Panofsky, and Richter, 1962
Bob Mozley, Pief Panofsky, and Burton Richter at SLAC site, August 10, 1962 (SLAC)
Bob Mozley, 1981
Bob Mozley 1981 ID photo (SLAC)