Kenneth Greisen: Pictures and miscellaneous

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• Ken's undergradute studies were at Franklin and Marshall where he was on the track team and won the prestigeous Henry S. Williamson Medalist award.
• Bruno Rossi was Ken's thesis advisor at Cornell and Ken is quoted in his memoir in pdf format.
• LANL has written an historical document entitles "trial run, May 7, 1945" which mentions Ken 6 times.
• Ken's eye-witness account of the first atomic test is available in html and plain text.
• Richard P Feynman gave Cornell University advice on who they should hire at the end of WWII. Courtesy of a British colleague, that letter is reproduced in PostScript or in pdf from a published collection of his correspondence. Bethe of course was to be Chair, but Ken is mentioned prominently and often.
• Ken joined the American Astronomical Society in 1966 and was the first Chair of its High Energy Astrophysics Division in 1970. An award in Ken's name from that Division has been proposed.
• The Physics Department was instumental in encouraging Kendal to build in Ithaca, providing Bethe, Greisen, Corson, Wilson, Hartman, McDaniel, and others a place to retire in comfort. Kendal of Ithaca provided Helen and Ken with excellent care in the final years of their lives.