Matt Sands, 1919-2014

SLAC Founding Deputy Director

B.A. Physics & Math, Clark University 1940
M.A. Physics, Rice University 1941
Technician, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Washington DC 1941-1943
Electronics Technician, US AEC / Army Manhattan Project, Instrumentation Group1943-1945?
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Office of Naval Research (ONR) Fellowship, 1946-1948
- Ph.D. Physics, 1948
- Assistant Professor, Physics, 1948-1950
Consultant, Brookhaven National Laboratory 1947-1950
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Research Fellow 1950-1952
- Assistant Professor, Physics,1952-1963
- Deputy Director, Synchrotron Laboratory 1961-1963
Deputy Director, and Professor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) 1963-1969
University of California Santa Cruz
- Vice Chancellor for Science 1969-1972
- Professor of Physics 1972-1985
Commissioner, Commission on College Physics, 1960-1966, Chairman 1964-1966
Panelist, Presidents' Scientific Advisory Committee (PSAC) 1961-1966
Consultant, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) 1962
Consultant, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) 1962
Member, JASON 1965-1969
SLAC profile
Wikipedia entry
Atomic Heritage Foundation profile
Matthew Sands, Founding Deputy Director of SLAC, Dies at 93 SLAC Today, September 18, 2014
In Memoriam UC Santa Cruz
Obituary Santa Cruz Sentinel
Oral history transcript. Interview with Dr. Matthew Sands by Finn Aserud in Santa Cruz CA, May 4 and 5, 1987. American Institute of Physics
Matthew Linzee Sands by Burton Richter. Physics Today, May 2015

Founding Member & Newsletter Editor, Los Alamos Association of Atomic Scientists
Electronics: Experimental Techniques. by William C. Elmore and Matthew Sands. McGraw-Hill, 1949
The Feynman Lectures on Physics New Millennium Edition. Feynman, Leighton, Sands. Copyright © 1963, 2006, 2010 by California Institute of Technology, Michael A. Gottlieb, and Rudolf Pfeiffer
Six Easy Pieces (iBook textbook). Essentials of Physics Explained by its Most Brilliant Teacher Richard P. Feynman, with Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands. Copyright © 1963, 1989, 1995, 2011, 2012 by the California Institute of Technology Copyright © 2010, 2012 Michael A. Gottlieb and Rudolf Pfeiffer
Feynman's Tips of Physics: A problem-solving supplement to The Feynman Lectures on Physics...with a Memoir by Matthew Sands. Basic Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-465-02892-2
Other publications and papers can be found here (inSPIRE)

The SLAC Archives and History Office holds no papers from Professor Matt Sands. We recommend that interested researchers contact UC Santa Cruz Special Collections and Archives.

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