Past Spotlights, 2005-2011
News features on SLAC archives and history
December 2, 2011
Web @ SLAC is 20 years old!
![Paul Kunz with NeXT machine at SLAC](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/webserver.jpg?h=fca1b652&itok=P5-NFLGc)
October 20, 2011
On October 20, 2006, SLAC broke ground for the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)...
![LCLS schematic, 2006](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/lcsl.jpg?h=ace006e5&itok=AbNBI7la)
October 4, 2011
It's Nobel Season again...
Thirty-five years ago, Burton Richter got the call...
![Burt Richter's Nobel press conference, 1976](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/arc00488.jpg?h=18fdc6d5&itok=RsT4BTYn)
September 15, 2011
Twenty years ago, in September 1991, physicist Paul Kunz brought the Web to SLAC...
![Paul Kunz in his office with his NeXT computer](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/MC03959-46_crop.jpg?h=ccfdcc62&itok=snB7sPSE)
August 10, 2011
E-print archive anniversary...
![Arxiv.org logo](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/arxiv_logo.jpg?h=bc2d6371&itok=j3kpKfw3)
June 20, 2011
ANITA calibration anniversary
![ANITA Project at End Station A, June 16, 2006](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/DR_061406_IMG_8670a.jpg?h=7c602296&itok=3t9N8KWF)
June 2, 2011
Anniversary of first synchrotron radiation coronary angiogram recorded on a human subject...
![Radiation coronary angiogram, May 1986](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/ssr6.jpg?h=2851e785&itok=xm79IxtA)
May 20, 2011
Linac first beam anniversary
![The Beam gets to Sector 1 (May 21, 1966)](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/arc03636-1.jpg?h=24855725&itok=_xEOu9Ap)
May 5, 2011
A "charm"ing anniversary...
![Sheldon Glashow Particle Chart 1976](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/ParticleChart_Glashow_BL197609%281%29.jpg?h=8e5204d6&itok=e1_yTSJ4)
April 1, 2011
At SLAC, change is nothing new...
![Persis Drell, December 6, 2007](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/T712AD220p.jpg?h=7685ba0d&itok=tV7tRgIq)
March 17, 2011
KIPAC anniversaries...
![Fred Kavli Building, 2006](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/kavli_building_large.jpeg?h=5185f460&itok=ULUzxuZm)
February 24, 2011
SLAC History Project anniversary...
![AHRO Storage Area, 2019](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/2019_1205_Dorothy_Leung_SLAC_Archives_Orrell-1970.jpg?h=995da7a2&itok=lxfv2Or_)
January 25, 2011
"Golden Bolt" Ceremony anniversary...
![Larry Mohr (AEC) tightening last bolt on linac, 2/10/1966](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/M1889-2_crop.jpg?h=81143b2a&itok=0LAkCgMW)
November 9, 2010
Sid Drell wins Enrico Fermi Award...
![Sidney Drell at blackboard, 2002](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/Ginter_sid-2.jpg?h=842ecfb9&itok=8xqSs5Vl)
October 13, 2010
National Fossil Day, 2010
![Neoparadoxia repenningi fossil cast model](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/DR_100505_dinasaur_16bit.jpg?h=dcca8a72&itok=bEEJj4KK)
October 6, 2010
It's Nobel season and two of SLAC's Nobelists mark significant anniversaries this year...
![Display of Martin Perl's Nobel Prize memorabilia, 2014](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/IMG_0090_Nobel_Perl_VC.jpg?h=0d054e74&itok=cChngvVD)
June 23, 2010
Homebrew Computer Club reunion at SLAC...
![Homebrew Computer Clube meeting at SLAC](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/homebrew-computer-club-homebrew-1024x684.jpg?h=199d8c1f&itok=NjVy3xa5)
May 28, 2010
In 1970, SLAC had its first retiree...
![J. T. Goad, 1964](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/1964_Goad_J_T_crop.jpg?h=1f4e9ec5&itok=-FINsFmC)
April 1, 2010
Did SLAC host ghosts 30 and 35 years ago?
![Ancestors in Stanford Savoyard's 1975 production of Ruddigore, including Arthur Bienenstock and Richard Taylor. 1975.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/arc00547_crop.jpg?h=68280105&itok=8ptH9PIc)
March 2, 2010
GLAST project 10-year milestone...
![Artist's conception of GLAST satellite orbiting earth](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/arc03523_crop.jpg?h=84ecf659&itok=mAv8VXXx)
February 17, 2010
Forty years ago: French President Pompidou visits SLAC...
![Panofsky, Loew and Pompidou at SLAC, February 27, 1970](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/GA7922-17_crop.jpg?h=3994a642&itok=Ns0I901n)
December 8, 2009
1991: SLAC launches first web site in North America...
![Paul Kunz (left) with Tim Berners-Lee (right) at SLAC with NeXT computer that held first North American web browser, 10/22/2003](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/DR_102303_IMG_0337a_crop3.jpg?h=e93ba42c&itok=shIkU8Yc)
November 1, 2009
35th Anniversary of "November Revolution" in Physics...
![Burt Richter and Sam Ting at SLAC, November 14, 1984](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/arc00545.jpg?h=edf8deb4&itok=BEOJsW5m)
October 21, 2009
...More Loma Prieta earthquake memories...
October 15, 2009
Loma Prieta Earthquake remembered...
![Marty Breidenbach's SLAC office after Loma Prieta earthquake.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/SLD198903.jpg?h=c808648e&itok=JuP5kKPO)
October 1, 2009
New Archives' Month contest...
August 21, 2009
Forty years ago: final payment for SLAC was made...
![Ultimate payment for SLAC, 08/21/1969](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/GA0957%281%29.jpg?h=1d484ab2&itok=2MriMkCd)
August 13, 2009
Tenth anniversary of BaBar at SLAC...
![BaBar detector at SLAC, 2002](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/Ginter7.jpg?h=eb1183bc&itok=kZwMq7Ay)
August 1, 2009
45 years of charm...
![Graphic depiction of the charm quark](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/charm_symmetry200905.jpg?h=adeeb903&itok=mp7K2E5e)
May 1, 2009
35 years of X-ray science...
![SSRP drawing, April 1974](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/GA3677.jpg?h=7fb99439&itok=WPUucqXI)
April 14, 2009
20 years ago this month: SLAC's first Z ...
![Jonathan Dorfan speaking at celebration of the first Z recorded by Mark II, 04/12/1989](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/arc00247_crop.jpg?h=5684f9f6&itok=KxShYR-Y)
January 9, 2009
Archives month contest pays continuing dividends...
November 10, 2008
2008 Archives Month Contest Winners...
October 1, 2008
Celebrating Archives' Month with a Contest...
February 7, 2008
Director Panofsky memorialized...
![W. K. H. Panofsky](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/wkh213_crop.jpg?h=d9cf8f0e&itok=gCM0rHyW)
September 25, 2007
Lab Director Emeritus, W.K.H. "Pief" Panofsky dies...
![W K H Panofsky (pointing) and Felix Bloch at SLAC site picnic, 1962.](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/wkh043_crop.jpg?h=0bf12eef&itok=3pTDh_kw)
May 1, 2005