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person1926–2016

Sidney Drell

Disciplines:
physics
higher education/stanford
arms control
slac

Summary

American physicist at SLAC and Hoover Institution — who combined high-energy physics with arms control advocacy — one of the most respected physics voices on nuclear weapons policy — worked with the President's Science Advisory Committee.

Core Contribution

Creates the physicist-arms controller model — Drell's ability to move between particle physics and nuclear policy gave arms control debates technical credibility that purely political analysts lacked.

Notable Works & Achievements

Facing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons

The Responsibility of Scientists in the Nuclear Age

Numerous physics papers

Historical Influences

Physics community J.D. Jackson

Intellectual Lineage

Atlantic City, NJPrinceton University of Illinois Stanford SLAC

Contemporaries & Peers

Richard GarwinWolfgang Panofsky

Minds Influenced

Nuclear arms control

Intellectual Posterity

SLAC contributionsArms control policy

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