The Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics is an annual prize of the
American Physical Society
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. It is given to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in experimental
particle physics
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, and is open to
scientist
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s of any nation. It was established in 1985 by friends of
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
Wolfgang Kurt Hermann "Pief" Panofsky (April 24, 1919 – September 24, 2007), was a German-American physicist who won many awards including the National Medal of Science.
Early life
Panofsky was born in Berlin, Germany to a family of art h ...
and by the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society. Panofsky was a physics professor at
Stanford University
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and the first director of the
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC). Several of the prize winners have subsequently won the
Nobel Prize in Physics
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. As of 2021, the prize included a $10,000 award.
Recipients
The names, citations, and short biographies for Panofsky Prize winners are posted by the American Physical Society.
*2022:
Byron G. Lundberg,
Kimio Niwa,
Regina Abby Rameika,
Vittorio Paolone
*2021:
Edward Kearns,
*2020:
Wesley Smith
*2019:
Sheldon Leslie Stone
*2018:
Lawrence Sulak
Lawrence Sulak (born August 29, 1944) is an American physicist, currently the David M. Myers Distinguished Professor at Boston University. Some of Sulak's research has included Higgs detection at the Compact Muon Solenoid in the Large Hadron Colli ...
*2017:
Tejinder Virdee
Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee, ( Punjabi: ਤਜਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਵਿਰਦੀ, born 13 October 1952), is a Kenyan-born British experimental particle physicist and Professor of Physics at Imperial College London. He is best known for or ...
,
Michel Della Negra,
Peter Jenni
*2016:
David Hitlin, ,
Jonathan Dorfan,
*2015:
Stanley Wojcicki
Stanley George Wojcicki ( ; born Stanisław Jerzy Wójcicki, ; March 30, 1937) is a Polish American emeritus professor and former chair of the physics department at Stanford University in California, United States.
Early life and education
Wojcic ...
*2014:
Kam-Biu Luk,
Wang Yifang
*2013:
Blas Cabrera Navarro,
Bernard Sadoulet
*2012:
*2011: , ,
*2010:
Eugene Beier
Eugene William Beier (born 30 January 1940 in Harvey, Illinois) is an American physicist.
Beier received in 1961 his bachelor's degree from Stanford University and in 1963 his M.S. and in 1966 his Ph.D., with advisor Louis J. Koester Jr., from t ...
*2009: ,
*2008: ,
Pierre Sokolsky
*2007:
Bruce Winstein, ,
*2006: ,
Nigel Lockyer,
*2005:
Piermaria J. Oddone
*2004:
Arie Bodek
*2003:
William J. Willis
*2002:
Masatoshi Koshiba,
Takaaki Kajita,
Yoji Totsuka
*2001:
Paul Grannis
*2000:
Martin Breidenbach
*1999:
*1998:
David Robert Nygren
*1997: ,
*1996:
Gail G. Hanson,
Roy Frederick Schwitters
*1995:
Frank J. Sciulli
*1994: ,
*1993: ,
Nicholas P. Samios,
*1992:
Raymond Davis, Jr. and
Frederick Reines
Frederick Reines ( ; March 16, 1918 – August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment. He may be the only scientist i ...
*1991:
Gerson Goldhaber
Gerson Goldhaber (February 20, 1924 – July 19, 2010) was a German-born American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He was one of the discoverers of the J/ψ meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark. He worked at Lawrence Be ...
and
*1990:
Michael S. Witherell
*1989:
Henry W. Kendall,
Richard E. Taylor
Richard Edward Taylor, (2 November 1929 – 22 February 2018), was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor. He shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall "for their pioneering investigations ...
,
Jerome I. Friedman
*1988:
Charles Y. Prescott
See also
*
List of physics awards
This list of physics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for physics.
The list includes lists of awards by the American Physical Society of the United States, and of the Institute of Physics of the United Kingdom, followed by a l ...
References
External links
W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics
Awards of the American Physical Society
Fellows of the American Physical Society
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