Essay: Bob Siemann—SLC days at SLAC

Tor O. Raubenheimer^*
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94309, USA

^*Tor Raubenheimer is a professor at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Stanford University. He is an expert in accelerator physics, design issues in next generation linear colliders, ion/beam-plasma instabilities in rings and linacs, and effects during bunch length compression. He is presently the Director of the Accelerator Research Division at SLAC. Dr. Raubenheimer has been a Panofsky Fellow at SLAC and a visiting associate scientist at CERN. He received the American Physical Society’s Division of Beam Physics Dissertation Award and the U.S. Particle Accelerator School Prize for Achievement in Accelerator Physics and Technology, and is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Raubenheimer received his B. S. in physics and computer science from Dartmouth College and his Ph. D. in applied physics from Stanford University.