John Rees, 1930-2016

SLAC Professor (Emeritus), former Associate Director

John Rees, 1981 — *(SLAC)* John Rees, SLAC Staff Picture Book, 1981

Professional and Biographical Information

Indiana University
- B. A. , 1951
- M. S. , 1954
- Ph.D. , 1956
Harvard University
- Research Fellow, 1956-1965
- Lecturer in Physics, 1961-1962
Instructor in Physics, Northeastern University, 1961-1969
SLAC - Stanford University
- Staff Physicist, 1965-1969
- Senior Research Associate, 1971-1974
- Adjunct Professor, 1974-1982
- Professor (Applied Research), 1983-1997
- Emeritus Professor (Applied Research), 1997 -2016
SLAC Today obituary, January 26, 2016,by Burton Richter, Director Emeritus
Professor John Rees SLAC Faculty Page
San Jose Mercury News Obituary January 2016
Discussions of Rees' contributions to physics can be found in
- Paris, Elizabeth. Lords of the ring: The fight to build the first U.S. electron-positron collider. Historical Studies in Physics and Biology V31 no2 2001 (pp. 355-380) DOI 10.1525/hsps.2001.31.2.355.
- Riordan, Michael; Hoddeson, Lillian and Kolb, Adrienne W. Tunnel Visions: The Riese and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collilder. University of Chicago Press, 2015. ISBN 9780226294797
- Sessler, Andrew and Wilson, Edmund. Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators. World Scientific, 2007. ISBN 978-981-270-070-4

Publications

The Stanford Linear Collider. John R. Rees Scientific American Vol. 261, No. 4 (October 1989)
B-Factory Storage Ring Design. John R. Rees. SLAC-PUB-5397, January 1991
The Principles and Construction of Linear Colliders. John Rees. Chapter in Techniques and Concepts of High-Energy Physics IV. pp 451-474
A complete list of John R. Rees publications can be obtained from the inSPIRE database from this link

Archival Materials

John R. Rees 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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Group at SLC groundbreaking, 1983 — Rees, Panofsky and Hodel at SLC Groundbreaking, 10/31/1983 *(SLAC)*

Celebration of PEP first beam, 1980 — Celebration of first beam stored in PEP, 1980. Rees flanked by Panofsky and Paterson *(SLAC)*

Panofsky and Rees, 2004 — W. K. H. Panofsky and John Rees at Panofsky's 85th birthday party at SLAC, April 20, 2004 *(SLAC)*