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Physics Today / Volume 62 / Issue 1 / ARTICLES

Panofsky agonistes: The 1950 loyalty oath at Berkeley

John David Jackson

University of California, Berkeley

January 2009, page 41

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3074262
In 1949–51 the University of California was seriously damaged by a loyalty‐oath controversy. Wolfgang Panofsky, a promising young physics professor at Berkeley, was caught up in the turmoil.

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0031-9228 (print)  

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  • 01.60.+q

    Biographies, tributes, personal notes, and obituaries

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