Past Spotlights, 2012-
Helen Quinn wins 2024 Matteucci Medal
Biography features story of SLAC's beginnings
![Cover of Stanford's Wallace Sterling book](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/NilanKirk_Sterling2023.jpg?h=22a0249a&itok=GoD-FNJi)
SLC and SLD
SLAC Linear Collider (SLC) and SLAC Large Detector (SLD). Explore the history of the world's first--and so far only--linear collider, along with its massive, purpose-built detector.
![Color drawing of the SLC](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/arc00184.jpg?h=163bcbc2&itok=k7DzVsE7)
Ed Seppi
In memory of Edward Seppi, 1930-2012.
![Ed Seppi, 1965](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/1965_Seppi_Ed.jpg?h=5bc9ca35&itok=l3J2vZVm)
Romulo Castro
In memory of Romulo Castro, 1934-2021
![Romulo Castro, 1981](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/1981_Castro_Romulo.jpg?h=d9f3030d&itok=ZmixCKvs)
Rickansrud and Jamtgaard
In memory of Eugene B. Rickansrud and Ronald D. Jamtgaard...
![Ron D. Jamtgaard, 1964](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/1964_Jamtgaard_R_D_crop.jpg?h=4fad859d&itok=2Z5A7YYM)
William (Bill) Johnson
In memory of William (Bill) Johnson...
![William "Bill" Johnson](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/Johnson_William_B.jpg?h=a84fc7b2&itok=WBK6syb-)
Lew Keller
In memory of Lewis Keller...
![Lew Keller](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/Keller_Lew_2020.jpg?h=54fe39ea&itok=rQ1PqqW9)
Alonzo "Al" Ashley
In memory of Al Ashley...
![Pief Panofsky and Al Ashley, 1999](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/wkh005_crop.jpg?h=e9a43fde&itok=GQp6T5wJ)
Tom Elioff
Tom Elioff, who played a leading role in building U.S. particle accelerators for nearly half a century, dies at 85...
![Tom Elioff, 2004](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/DR_102104_IMG_6274a_crop2.jpg?h=fd76689f&itok=KEG3lG7a)
Panofsky Centennial
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang K. H. "Pief" Panofsky, SLAC's first director...
![W. K. H. Panofsky](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/wkh213_crop.jpg?h=d9cf8f0e&itok=gCM0rHyW)
Rita Taylor
In memory of Rita Taylor (19282018)
![Rita Taylor, 1981](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/1981_Taylor_Rita.jpg?h=5b48fbeb&itok=j2QLoT3A)
Paul Kunz
In memory of Paul Kunz, 1942-2018...
![Paul Kunz with NeXT machine at SLAC](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/webserver.jpg?h=fca1b652&itok=P5-NFLGc)
Charles Richard Dickens
In memory of Charles Dickens...
![Charles Dickens, 1981](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/Dickens_Charles_1981_crop.jpg?h=ce56d95d&itok=gPhIR5-_)
Roland Sharpe, 1924-2018
Supervising Engineer responsible for the original design and construction of SLAC...
![Roland Sharpe (EERI photo)](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/Sharpe_Roland_EERI_2021.jpg?h=300d3af2&itok=WnR4buR8)
John Ehrman, 1935-2018
In memory of John Ehrman, computer scientist...
![John Ehrman, 2002](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/DR_100102_Img_3002a_crop.jpg?h=5afe7f24&itok=Km-is1lP)
Bill Burgess
Greatly loved, much missed and very fondly remembered...
![Bill Burgess, 2000](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/arc04999.jpg?h=b1996b11&itok=X5QSyJGt)
SLAC Newsletters All Digital !!
From 1963 to the present...
![Some of SLAC's News mastheads, 1963-1995](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-09/SLACNewsMastheads.jpg?h=fe83497e&itok=QCV2snA6)
Share your memories of Sid Drell
Sidney Drell was an integral part of SLAC and Stanford through decades of his career...
![Sidney Drell, October 1980](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/fb0858_crop.jpg?h=eb99be28&itok=YHsDsjCW)
Stanford Web Archive Portal (SWAP)
SWAP Launches with SLAC's First Web Pages...
![Stanford Web Archive Portal (SWAP)](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/SWAP_202310.jpg?h=89119192&itok=iVjJhgJf)
On June 11, 2008, what was then the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) rode a Delta II rocket...
![Artist's conception of GLAST satellite orbiting earth](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/arc03523_crop.jpg?h=84ecf659&itok=mAv8VXXx)
SSRL's beginnings 40 years ago...
On July 6, 1973, a team of research pioneers extracted the first hard X-rays from SLAC's particle accelerator SPEAR...
![SSRP pilot project beamline](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/ssr19_crop.jpg?h=f2af2eae&itok=U0FshkUZ)
SLAC "Accelepede" wins first prize!
The SLAC "Accelepede " won first prize for costume contest in the 72nd Annual Bay to Breakers in San Francisco ...
![SLAC "Accelepede" at 1983 Bay to Breakers Race](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-08/kw001_crop.jpg?h=9b3da936&itok=tkAfU4X7)
Celebrating 50 Years of Discovery
SLAC is 50 years young...
![SLAC 50th Anniversary banner](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/2011_335__BANNERS-5.jpg?h=273a231d&itok=61kFayqJ)
LCLS and ROB anniversaries...
![Main Control Center image of first LCLS light, April 14, 2009](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/_MG_9677.jpg?h=fd0cdd2b&itok=AWQR4Ymn)
SSRL's Molecular Observatory celebrates five years...
![SSRL's Molecular Observatory for Structural Molecular Biology at Beamline 12, November 2007](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/slac-11.07-0251-b.jpg?h=9744820b&itok=aLkbxqjK)
20th Anniversary of a Great Idea: Building the LCLS at SLAC
![1993 LCLS II plan](/sites/default/files/styles/card/public/2023-10/lcls-labeled-aerial_31619935252_o.jpg?h=a3fba1cc&itok=S8-vkjK4)