John Rees, 1930-2016
Professional and Biographical Information
SLAC Today obituary, January 26, 2016,by Burton Richter, Director Emeritus
Professor John Rees SLAC Faculty Page
San Jose Mercury News Obituary January 2016
Discussions of Rees' contributions to physics can be found in
Paris, Elizabeth. Lords of the ring: The fight to build the first U.S. electron-positron collider. Historical Studies in Physics and Biology V31 no2 2001 (pp. 355-380) DOI 10.1525/hsps.2001.31.2.355.
Riordan, Michael; Hoddeson, Lillian and Kolb, Adrienne W. Tunnel Visions: The Riese and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collilder. University of Chicago Press, 2015. ISBN 9780226294797
Sessler, Andrew and Wilson, Edmund. Engines of Discovery: A Century of Particle Accelerators. World Scientific, 2007. ISBN 978-981-270-070-4
Publications
The Stanford Linear Collider. John R. Rees Scientific American Vol. 261, No. 4 (October 1989)
B-Factory Storage Ring Design. John R. Rees. SLAC-PUB-5397, January 1991
The Principles and Construction of Linear Colliders. John Rees. Chapter in Techniques and Concepts of High-Energy Physics IV. pp 451-474
A complete list of John R. Rees publications can be obtained from the inSPIRE database from this link
Archival Materials
John R. Rees papers held by the SLAC Archives, History & Records Office are currently being processed, and are not yet open for research. SLAC staff may access descriptions of his papers by clicking this link and entering his last name in the search box at the upper right on that page.
